This text first appeared in the newly released Class War magazine. You can read it here. A year into the Boris Johnson administration and his incompetence is obvious. “Wouldn’t it be fun if we had the clown stuck on the zipwire as Prime Minister?” No, it wouldn’t. Typically, the Tories chose their leader because they
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Between the Covid spikes, the dark conservatism of Boris Johnson develops
Between the first two spikes of the Covid 19 pandemic, Boris Johnson’s true colours have started to appear. This has not been a surprising process for anarchists. While some mainstream voices have suggested that his government has acted in odd ways as a response to the pandemic, it is clear that he and his government
Your perceptions are wrong
“That’s just your perception” is a phrase I heard a lot as a trade union activist.
Reflections on the incompetence of the Johnson government
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action on that ideological line. It shouldn’t exist so what it does is wrong. The pandemic though is helping us see things in a different light. It was anarchists who led the way in terms
Johnson, Cummings and the spectacle of scandal
We’ve finally gotten to the end of a road which has been decades in the making, in which politicians have slowly realised something that the direct action left has known for a very long time — noise is not a threat. There’s been a conceit in Western politics going back generations that if a politician
The great realignment of British politics has begun. Where it ends cannot be foreseen.
When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective. I wanted to write an anarchist account of how British politics was developing to keep it charted in a way that hadn’t really been attempted before. I thought at the time that we’d
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 suffering under the strains of Covid19 cases. Jon Bigger analyses the letter. Johnson: I am writing to you to update you on the steps we are taking
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. Libertarian is a word that is consistently bastardised by the new right. Over the last few days the word has been used to describe the UK prime minister in his apparent desire to not introduce the draconian
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, say our people on the ground. The demo, which had two distinct sections comprising a static early crowd at the gates who were later joined by a rowdier bunch who
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. There’ll be anarchists who don’t vote and anarchist that do. For anarchists who want to stay up all night and boo the establishment, Jon Bigger has a handy guide for things to watch out for. This election feels like it