Category Archive: Politics
Telling stories about Extinction By Gordon Liddle What influences an artist? Why does one artist paint in a […]
Global English is the New Standard English By Farhad Desai In Toronto. My students came from all over […]
Not so fast! By Thomas Levene The City of London is the goose that laid the golden egg. […]
In defence of liberalism By Frank Hardee If you think about it, socialism relies heavily on defeasability. In […]
Let the right ones in! By Phil Hall How many Palestinians have been given asylum in the UK? […]
TV producers invite us all to dream about cooking for the upper class. By Phil Hall How many […]
Despite their serious flaws, in the UK the police still provide an essential public service By Phil Hall […]
… and Twitter and Facebook are ready to silence us. By Gordon Liddle Twitter is not your friend. […]
Ever since I stumbled on Sonnet Mondal’s poems, I have been captivated by their stunning simplicity and words evoking a magical experience. That he achieves this consistently is breath-taking.
In this occasional series, our aim is to connect you with some of these exceptional beauties I come across. These are rare, as they don’t need any awards.
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If not Labour, then who? In football you write off teams that miss open goal after open goal, […]
A bad native speaker teacher sees the British as we and the students as they, as ‘Johnny foreigner’. […]
Bitcoin offers financial freedom and independence. By Thomas Levene If Bitcoin, is such a groundbreaking technology, why has […]
Onen hag Oll, oll adro (One and all, all around) By Phili Mills Phili Mills argues that the […]
Socialists need to reconnect with religion By Philip Hall I’ve recently decided to become a Quaker. I went […]
The Peace and Justice Project could kick-start the renaissance of the left. The end of Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure […]
What is the difference between being a Welsh nationalist who wants fewer English and an English nationalist? By […]
What is it that pulls us back from the solipsistic abyss of gamesmanship in life? By Neil Newman […]
There will be no business as usual in a Promethean Year By Adam Likley Firstly, let me wish […]
Christmas in Mexico is stuffed full of family, tradition and spirit. My three children bathed and clean in […]
Certainties trap us in the past with what has been, under the assumption that the future will be […]
The rich live in another Britain, a magical country, a Narnia, a Middle Earth, and they sneer at […]
Most of the problems people have, which caused them to vote Leave, are created by our own governments […]
James Tweedie, former International Editor of the Morning Star, argues strongly for a merry Brexit By James Tweedie […]
I was very curious to hear the opinions of former US army people working in the Middle East […]
By Bryan Greetham. We are busy producing a generation of the most sophisticated recyclers of received opinion In […]
By Phil Hall In order to be healthy and thin you need to eat fresh food, much of […]
Is New Labour’s dystopian surveillance society back on the cards again?
Or, “I really think we need to take a break”. By Paul Halas After several months of running […]
We are alive in amazing times, and 2020 is a significant year, as significant as 1968 was in […]
By Emil Blake It’s rare for politicians not to smile. Even the most insincere daren’t show anything but […]
By Francisco Dominguez The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) was right in appealing to the High Court’s ludicrous […]
By Paul Halas With the Labour Party once more appeasing the “Establishment”, can it still be home to […]
In July we began the month with a powerful argument against Rebecca Long-Bailey’s dismissal by Richard House published […]
Benjamin Cusden is a poet who crossed over to the light from the darkness, and in the pamphlet, Cut The Black Rabbit, to be published on the date by Against The Grain Poetry Press. he presents the view from that darkness.
By Paul Halas Cartoons that were art. Growing up in a family that was immersed in the visual […]
By Keith Woodhouse The night was over And the sea curds crackled And bent, crisply, in the deadening […]
By Paul Halas A favourite saying amongst Tories, not least the late demented Margaret Thatcher, is that the […]
By Adam Lickley 2017 did not end well for me. I was ‘let go’ from my job, my […]
by James Tweedie So you wanna be a journo, and why not? Well, here are a few good […]
by Francisco Dominguez On July 2nd 2020 British Judge Nigel Teare, with regard to a Central Bank of […]
By Adam Lickley So you fancy being a dancer, huh? And who doesn’t want to be paid to […]
By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]
Selected by Dominic Tweedie from: Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1918-1974 Paul Robeson was a superstar in […]
Modern conspiracy theory and the appeal of fascism and racism for the working class By Bryan Greetham In […]
by Eugene McCartan Image: new Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin, leader of the Fianna Fail party. SO, AFTER months […]
National Socialism offered the lower middle class a way of side-stepping the choice between liberalism or socialism. It […]
The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]
There was no antisemitism: the troubling case of Peake, Starmer and Long Bailey By Richard House, Abdul-Karim Al-Malahi, […]
Yogesh Patel A recent report exposes short comings of many publishers in the UK. Albeit, to call the […]
A Freedom Charter for Great Britain? If we held a constitutional assembly, all the progressive forces in British […]
Welcome to the monthly editorial and welcome to Ars Notoria. Strangely enough, the editorial for June 2020 will […]
By Paul Halas The blame game continues. Meanwhile… While the general public and the media obsess about Coronavirus […]
Socialists and capitalists together have ruined the planet. by Pete Field Even though climate scientists tell us we […]
Everyday working class, fascism is real by Phil Hall One of the dirty secrets of history is that […]
First Chávez, now Trump Photo by Alisdare Hickson (https://www.flickr.com/people/59952459@N08) by James Tweedie Sayre’s Law states that: “In any […]
COMICS – THE SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT By Paul Halas To this day there’s still an intellectual snobbery […]
A short appraisal by MERVYN HYDE As a baby boomer, born one month after the war in Japan […]
Democracy delayed is democracy denied by James Tweedie Today is the 40th anniversary of the murder of Guyanese […]
– and bloody annoyed at the constant micro and macro racism of the British police By Des Willie […]
How we regained faith in politics By Paul Halas Jeremy Corbyn was a phenomenon. This relatively obscure politician […]
In the USA racism is the collateral damage caused by social inequality and injustice, and a history of […]
It’s staggering that as the world spiralled into a political death loop over the past decade, and trust […]
Can we look forward to a more sustainable future when the Coronavirus virus recedes? By PAUL HALAS For […]
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