Jon Bigger writes on the likely scene awaiting us and the UK’s decline as a world power – with or without the EU. It looks like Brexit might be delayed for a few months to allow more time for Theresa May to continue the best negotiations anyone has ever seen. May is the expert at
One of the phrases that came out of the Brexit referendum campaign time and time again was “taking back control”, writes Jon Bigger. This was presented as the people grasping control via the UK Parliament over legislation, borders and regulations. Over the last few weeks of 2018 and the first of 2019 we’ve seen just
Jon Bigger looks over the stumbling Parliamentary scene as Theresa May struggles with Brexit and Ireland. Theresa May is the figurehead of a government that could last a full five-year term or collapse at any moment. It is now just over a year since her party failed to win an overall majority at the last
What a few weeks it’s been in British politics. Whilst Jeremy Corbyn still doesn’t look comfortable doing a conference speech in front of his party, his effort this year was more polished than previous ones and contained some bolder propositions. He’s clearly buoyed by the popularity Labour gained during the election. Meanwhile the Tory conference
In his latest column, Jon Bigger muses on one of the weirdest general election spectacles in living memory. This has been a remarkable general election, whatever the result (I’m writing this the day before the UK votes). In my adult lifetime there hasn’t been such a difference between the two main parties and there hasn’t been
As I write, a million words are being typed on the same subject as quickly as fingers can slam downwards, in a quest to shovel something regarding Theresa May’s election plans onto front pages around the world within the next few minutes. The hottest of takes are being prepared, barely thought-through analysis and nuggets of
In the last 48 hours it’s emerged that Theresa May has continued the Conservative party tradition of cover-up and lying in relation to nuclear weapons. Following her refusal to answer a direct question four times in a row from Andrew Marr on Sunday, the office of the Prime Minister has finally admitted that she was informed
Whatever else you might say about the Prime Minister, she can waffle like a true champion. Below is our commentary on the government’s comprehensive 12-point plan for Brexit. 1. We will provide certainty wherever we can Jolly good, that’s not an actual plan for Brexit though is it. More a sort of standing aspiration of
Hundreds of activists took part in a day of mass action on October 1st 2016 at Heathrow and its surrounds to protest against aviation expansion and to tax frequent flyers to encourage other means of transport that is more environmentally friendly. The mass day of action against airport expansion was organised by Reclaim the Power
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips As we endure the first few weeks of the newly instated Teresa May regime an opportunity for anti authoritarians presents itself in after the abolition of the Department for Climate Change. The post will now
The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the sun rises each day over the grey skies of the United Kingdom, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a systemic failure that has plagued workers
I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books
From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises.
Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the leader of historical Nazi-Fascism, and the cradle of modern post-fascist
One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~ Can you tell us about who you are and how it all started and what are your activities?
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