The English Delusion – Brexit and Empire
All empires are illusions, built on the delusions of the tyrants who build them. That’s why they fail. The British Empire was an illusion, built on white supremacism. It collapsed…. Continue Reading
Browsing Tag: remain
Singing against racism
Traitors (Mix A) We came as strangers, no rights, no rewards.We held up this country, straight after the wars. ChorusThe media deplore us, lies and hate haunt us.We are traitors,… Continue Reading
Single-Issue Politics – Your Vote In EU Elections Is Vital
I would like to say that we’re living in heady days, but the exact opposite is true – we are living in frightening days, when the political apparatus is broken,… Continue Reading
A Letter to Labour on #Remain
Dear Labour Party NEC, I am writing to you today about the meeting of Labour’s NEC to discuss Labour’s manifesto for the upcoming EU elections. I was a member of… Continue Reading
Saint Theresa
I saw you coming out of church on SundayClutching your handbag and husbandAnd leaning against the wind and the countryWith a smile painted painfully on your empty faceStiff amidst those… Continue Reading
Living in a lawless land – Part II
Since my most recent blogpost (3rd March), Theresa May has one day, laughably, claimed that reducing the police force has had no direct correlation with rising knife crime in the… Continue Reading
Living in a lawless land
When we hear that popular trope that mature democracies destroy themselves, our thoughts tend to immediately scurry to military coups culminating in the installation of a dictator, of manufactured right-wing unrest… Continue Reading
#PeoplesVote response to my letter from Daniel Poulter MP
Finally, more than three weeks after I wrote to him about a #peoplesvote, my constituency MP, Daniel Poulter, got back to me. His response is followed by my immediate response… Continue Reading
#PeoplesVote Letter to my MP Daniel Poulter
I sent this to my MP Daniel Poulter by email on 22nd October. I have not yet received a response, perhaps not unsurprisingly. We are being cheated on all fronts…. Continue Reading
An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
Dear Jeremy, I voted for you twice, once in 2015 before the wounds of the referendum were ripped into this nation’s sides, and once afterwards, when I still had hope… Continue Reading