Pages

▼
Tuesday, 26 August 2014

999 for the NHS - "The Spar of Sickness"

›
  Patients & staff wave to marchers at Pinderfields in Wakefield After spending two days on a "feeder walk" from ...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

We Will Remember. And One Day Learn.

›
DULCE ET DECORUM EST by WILFRED OWEN Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Proud to Pay Their Taxes

›
A curious item pops up on social media this evening - an anti-Scottish independence group called "Proud to be Scots, Proud to be Unite...
1 comment:
Monday, 28 July 2014

No Wind Turbines to Spoil the View

›
The British Government, which once upon a time audaciously and falsely claimed it would be the greenest government in history finally to...
Sunday, 27 July 2014

Bloody Brothers

›
The last few weeks has seen a seemingly exponential upsurge in violence not only across the Middle East but also in Ukraine and west Africa...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Balkan Echoes

›
The Mothers of Srebrenica - the surviving relatives of the 7,000 Muslim men and boys butchered in 1995. A Dutch Court has today ruled...
Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Global Warming - Seeing the Unseen

›
As our emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise, perhaps one of the biggest problems in getting across the impact it has on our planet ...
3 comments:
Monday, 30 June 2014

Flexible Working: giving with one hand

›
From today, everyone with more than 26 weeks service has the right to request flexible working and their employer needs to seriously consid...
Thursday, 12 June 2014

Water Cannons: Doing what it says on the Tin

›
So London Mayor Boris Johnson has ordered three water cannons to be bought from Germany to be deployed on the streets of London. It has cau...
2 comments:

Seeing Through The Illusion of Choice

›
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debat...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

D-Day 70 Years on: Why Britain Fought

›
In recent weeks, the bravery of the troops who went ashore against the Nazis at the D-Day landings seventy years ago this morning was the s...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

Farage Photos

›
Just in case you've been missing Nigel Farage, who hasn't been on the TV for over 4 hours now, here are some photographs. Please sh...
Monday, 26 May 2014

Don't Let The Lights Be Dimmed

›
The last 24 hours has been filled with repeated fanfares and breathless TV newspeople proclaiming about the earthquake caused by the increa...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

UKIP - To the Barricades or the Boozer?

›
The local election results were declared yesterday with the media trumpeting a fanfare of stories about UKIP breaking through, parroting ...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

We Are Europe - Change It for the Better 22 May

›
For people not profit. For consumers not corporations. For planet, not exploitation. We need a Europe that works for people, not big bu...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Guest Post: Bradley Allsop on Greens or UKIP?

›
Bradley Allsop explains why a Green vote is better than a UKIP one... The past few months have seen a lot of attention on UKIP in the u...

UKIP hit the doldrums as the Greens Surge

›
The media story of the European elections has been UKIP - not whether they would win or not, but by how much. Who could stop Farage and his...
Friday, 16 May 2014

Crash - Nigel Farage on LBC

›
Last week, I posited that there was a seminal moment on BBC Question Time when, however slowly, the wheels finally began to come off Nigel ...

Green Euroelections - Cllr Andrew Cooper, Lead candidate for Yorkshire & The Humber Region

›
In 2009, Yorkshire & The Humber region saw a rise in the Green Party vote at the European elections, but they were just pipped at the p...
Saturday, 10 May 2014

Green Euroelections - Peter Cranie, Lead candidate for the North West Region

›
With the polls showing the Greens' support rising, including several now putting them ahead of the junior government party, the Lib Dem...