The Ukrainian presidential elections resulted in a TV actor beating the incumbent (Petro Poroshenko) and a third-time candidate for president (Yulia Tymoshenko) into second and third places, respectively. The first round of…
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BBC’s Venezuela bias
Who says the BBC’s World Service, which is part-funded by the British government’s Foreign Office, is biased? Today the radio service reported on 2 demonstrations in Venezuela – one pro-Maduro and one…
The ruling class is right
It is worth listening to what the ruling class is saying. Because often they display a greater level of class-consciousness than we do when analysing the economic and political crisis. Take Bruno…
A bigot accuses us of xenophobia
Mathew d’Ancona is a columnist in the London Evening Standard and the Guardian. He is also a bigot. In the Evening Standard today he characterises the people on the other side…
A ‘proud Fenian’ has his say
James McClean plays for Stoke City, and has chosen not to wear a poppy. In a home game against Middlesborough on Saturday he was the subject of verbal abuse from visiting fans,…
Bad cops
Guardian Friday 3 Aug 2018 PC Daniel Reed was one of six officers from Durham police who went to the Dalesman pub in Darlington to arrest a 43-year-old man on suspicion of…
Project Fear is back
Once again the ruling class are out in force trying to undo the Leave vote. 17.4 million workers and middle class voters declared their wish to leave the capitalist club that…
An economist explains
You could read a whole article by a highly-regarded economist and come away convinced he is a simpleton. Stephen King of HSBC is no exception. He wrote a comment piece in the…
US declares trade war at Davos
The US has gone to Davos to tell the rest of the world it is declaring a trade war. The US Commerce Secretary declared, ‘Trade wars are fought every single day. Every…