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Keir Starmer: The New King of the Corporate Freebies

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You do know why record amounts of big business cash is flowing freely into the Labour Party’s campaign coffers, don’t you?  You don’t think it’s Starmer’s endearing personality that’s seeing literal Tory donors handing over their hoarded wealth to the neoliberal dream, right?  Or maybe, just maybe you know Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves attends private meetings with Tory donors to reassure them that nothing will change under a Labour regime.  You see, it’s simply an investment to huge corporations. They invest money that belongs to the working classes into an interest that will recycle the cash into something that resembles access to politicians and influence in decision making.  The Labour Party of today embraces corporate monopoly power while shitting all over the poor and working classes that dare to seek a little bit more than just the crumbs from the shareholders tables.  While Reeves and Starmer drag themselves from one boardroom to the next like contestants from The Apprentice
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My Chat With Noam Chomsky

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This interview is dedicated to our Becky’s dad, Ronnie, who was a huge admirer of Noam Chomsky. Rest in peace, Ronnie x I know right. Noam Chomsky.  I’ve had the pleasure of putting some questions to some of the most incredible people in the past - Alexei Sayle and Jeremy Corbyn being particularly memorable.  But Noam Chomsky?  Noam Chomsky, 93, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist - I am a ranty forty-something Twitter woman from North Wiltshire. Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics - I am the mother of two moody teenagers. Noam Chomsky argues that individuals are born with a predisposition to learn language - I just tend to argue and my language is often somewhat ‘colourful’.  Noam Chomsky believed that it was more than a coincidence that the majority of human languages follow simple rules and patterns when it comes to grammar - When it comes to grammar I would be put to shame by an 11-year-old.  So wh
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Irresistible: Be A Part Of The Movement For Change

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Some opportunities are just too good to pass up. And this was one of them. Well, 4 of them.  I  was speaking with an old friend recently, and they asked me if I was aware of the Festival of Resistance. Just the name alone sounded quite awesome. I was certainly aware of it - I have friends attending and speaking - but I didn’t take an in-depth look until just recently, and I’m genuinely glad that I did.  Let’s be honest. The left is all over the place.  I’m not talking about pointless Twitter spats, for they are merely a tool of distraction, and they serve no purpose to a movement that must come together, in good faith, whether that is to take it to the government of the day, or even having to be the opposition to Her Majesty’s official ineffective opposition.  I mean, how lucky are we? The worst government in living memory, by some distance, and a painfully lame opposition determined to out-Tory the Tories.  What a time to live. Anyway, back to this opportunity.  Today’s 4 contributors
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