by The Editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Politics
Tory housing spokesman in London proposed abolishing Health and Safety Executive in 2014 Harry Phibbs is a journalist who writes for the the influential Tory grassroots website Conservative Home, as well as for the Daily Mail. In 2014, Phibbs wrote a bizarre...
by The Editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Politics
The Grenfell Tower fire reflects a colossal betrayal of working class people’s trust by the state. The Conservatives have emphasised “economic growth” at the expense of citizen’s welfare in their policies since taking office in 2010. This is a government that has...
by The Editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Politics
Grenfell tower has laid bare the complete and utter contempt the Westminster government has for London’s ordinary working people, the marginalised, and the vulnerable. If we think they care about Scotland we are delusional. Grenfell tower is an inferno that, in the...
by The Editor | Jun 19, 2017 | Politics
What would be the harm in the government and the media rephrasing their refrain from “thirty confirmed dead” to “more than a hundred feared dead?” It’s in the numbers. The bigger the number the faster the government falls. All day I have spent watching the social...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
Austerity kills. No greater proof of this fact exists than that we are watching unfold around the burnt out husk of Grenfell tower in Kensington, London. This was no accident. It was cold and calculated murder. Austerity is a spectator sport. Television has...