When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective.
The great realignment of British politics has begun. Where it ends cannot be foreseen.
Tag: Boris Johnson
Dissecting Boris Johnson’s letter to the British people
The prime minister is writing a letter to every household in the UK to a cost of £6m, at a time when the National Health Service (NHS) is sufferin…
Boris Johnson a ‘libertarian’? What a joke
It’s really frustrating when people use anarchist terms and phrases out of context or for their own advantage.
The first post election anti-Boris rally (of many)
A protest outside Downing Street against the newly-elected Prime Minister last night saw a bit of edge that has been sorely lacking in recent years…
Five things that could happen to make election night interesting
There will be anarchists that avoid the election and anarchists who soak it all up.
The Tory legacy: a lost decade and over 130,000 deaths through austerity
Since 2001 around 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the UK.
The stability of the Brexit shambles
I wrote on many occasions during the Brexit process that the initial referendum was really an invitation from David Cameron for the British public …
How Johnson’s stop and search expansion will hurt BME communities
Earlier this month, Boris Johnson revealed the next string to his crime-fighting bow; a country-wide extension to Stop-and-Search procedures.
Johnson Prorogues Parliament: A Very British Coup?
Johnson has prorogued parliament, stripping parliamentary oversight at a key moment in order to force through his damaging no-deal Brexit plan.
fck govt fck boris: Report from the rally
The big event, organised by a wide-ranging coalition of groups from Women’s Strike Assembly and Momentum to BLM UK and Lesbians & Gays su…
The left needs to stop celebrating the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith
Based on the reaction of usually coherent lefties on my social media feeds you’d have thought Margaret Thatcher had been resurrected from the…
It’s hard to care about litter whilst the government cuts the legs out from underneath deprived communities
The #cleanforthequeen campaign is disgusting.
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Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
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Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
