Brownshirts in blazers? The rise of UKIP
With its 16% of the vote in the June Euro-elections the UK Independence Party, previously dismissed as a group of…
Month: March 2021 (page 2)
Transphobia, free speech and the left
Earlier this month an online Stand Up For Labour Party Democracy rally was organised to build a campaign in solidarity…
Seymour Hersh and massacres — the degeneration of a respected journalist
The celebrated investigative journalist Seymour Hersh appeared on the BBC Daily Politics show on Tuesday, mainly to plug his recently…
Labour and the ‘Jewish vote’ in Barnet
It was always a bit of a long shot that the Labour Party might be able to take the London…
Is Tom Watson paid by wealthy Zionists to ‘represent a foreign power’?
This meme attacking Tom Watson has been doing the rounds on social media lately. Frankly, it is depressing that anyone…
What is an antisemitic conspiracy theory? A reply to David Rosenberg
Following Rebecca Long-Bailey’s sacking as shadow education secretary for sharing an interview with actor Maxine Peake, David Rosenberg responded with…
Leftwing conspiracy theories and the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey
Keir Starmer’s decision to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary has quite rightly outraged the Labour left. Starmer obviously…
Street protests and far-right parties — What threat does the ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ campaign pose?
In the space of just over a month the far right has organised two very large anti-Muslim demonstrations in London,…
Israel as a ‘racist endeavour’ — how the IHRA is used to suppress free speech
The furore over the wave of antisemitism that has supposedly engulfed the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership continues to…
Inciting hatred against Muslims — why we need a change in the law
On Monday an English Defence League sympathiser from Shoreham by the name of Nigel Pelham (pictured) received a 20-month prison…