I am over 70 and my memories go back over many elections. The whole lot were tweedle dum or tweeedle dee choices. OK I mostly gave in to the lesser of the evils and mostly voted Labour's tweedle. This is the first time there are no tweedles. It's them or ...
By John Lerwill While I know there are some very decent persons in the Tory ranks, there is an underlying misapprehension by the Tory movement: ignorance of the fact that a true civilisation is measured by how well we look after our weakest and most vulnerable members. Gandhi pointed that out, ...
This Facebook comment about Jeremy Corbyn and the General Election is going viral on social media. Read it and decide if your opinion has been influenced by the media.
With change or revolution comes a breakdown in convention and relationships between things have to be re-established and new narratives invented. I get this from reading journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason’s Wtf is Eleni Haifa? inspired by Viginia Woolf’s argument with Arnold Bennett who believed that after WW1 writers could ...
By Paul de Hoest, Green Party Candidate for South West Hertfordshire Inequality has widened, young people are priced out of the housing market and Government debt keeps going up. The only answer the Tories have is that we need more of the austerity medicine which means: less welfare, less spending ...
Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially ...
Early findings from Bond University in Australia have scientifically demonstrated that the "Tapping Therapy" rewires the brain’s neural pathways to reduce addiction and food cravings. "Tapping", also known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), is already being used to treat mental and emotional health issues, but this is the first time ...
I have a pen-pal in the Shadow Cabinet, a bond having been forged during the upheavals of the PLP's failed rising against Jeremy Corbyn. Ever since, on a irregular basis I have shared observations drawn from the experience of years spent fighting elections as a Liberal Party apparatchik in Canada. ...
A grandmother suffered a heart attack during a job centre employment meeting and was too scared to get up and leave, for fear of losing her benefits echoing the film I, Daniel Blake. In the Ken Loach film, the lead suffers a similar situation, but this woman had an attack ...