The Human response to Climate Collapse
and what needs to be done…
We Need an International Socialist Movement
My weekly Column in the daily Plymouth Herald (29th September 2026), addressing the Labour Party Conference from afar. This was written a day before Burnham’s speech which sought to rally a beleaguered Party around working class issues. I stand by what I wrote. It was pie-in-the-sky with sleight-of-hand pledges, for example, cutting the pensioners triple-lock…
Wealth Isn’t Lacking it’s being Hoarded!
My weekly Comment Column in the daily Plymouth Herald (22.9.26), predicting more of the Austerity ideology trying to make us pay for profits and war. The Budget looms, the call for cuts to benefits raises to a crescendo, and the organised working class has to fight or pay up. Mine has been a lifetime in…
“Stock Up” Warnings Worth Heeding
My weekly Comment Column in the daily Plymouth Herald (15.9.26), emphasising the drive to war but without exaggeration. The piece underplays my personal distress at the sheer absence of any serious organised outcry against the rearmament and militarism encouraged by this, a Labour Government. I’m unsurprised given the role of Blair’s government in the illegal…
Fascists Use Democracy to End Democracy
My weekly Comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (8.9.26), calling for mobilisation against the far-Right racists and fascists. Plymouth now has two elected Councillors representing Restore Britain. They have to be challenged. And the thugs have called a march and rally in Plymouth Hoe on Saturday 19th September – they have to be stopped!…
We should be emptying the prisons!
My weekly Comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (1st September 2026), trying to counter the wall-to-wall right-wing media coverage of the prisons crisis, each and all focussed on the threat from criminals when there is less threat now than for decades. Of course, a separate piece would place the issue within the wider crisis…
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