In 1945 the Labour Party was swept to power, in the process dethroning a murderous racist whose legacy has finally been successfully reckoned with. That same year, the new deputy prime minister remarked that granting independence to Britain’s African colonies would be “like giving a child of ten a latchkey, a bank account and aContinue reading “Labour’s historic discriminatory problems”
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Labour is disunited, and could remain so for quite a while
To say the Labour Party is in trouble is not remarkable; it always is. To live in Labour is to live with a pack of wolves in the next room, unable to leave. There are two ways to deal with these wolves: You can either try to befriend them, encouraging an “all in this together”Continue reading “Labour is disunited, and could remain so for quite a while”
Labour: A Long Way Forward
As I write this, the mighty coronavirus is rampaging around the world, and has given me an indefinite amount of time away from school (if you’re reading this in 2025, this was written before the supermarkets imploded, Boris Johnson had an anxiety attack live on television and we declared war on the EU). In otherContinue reading “Labour: A Long Way Forward”
Keeping Left 