ALAN SIMPSON
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Are we the new Number 6? Don’t be under any illusions. This article offers no sanctuary for the advocates of ‘herd immunity’. As an answer to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s a price too high. A colossal increase in death rates, and overwhelming the NHS, does not even bear thinking about. All the same, the growing…
The government’s educational omnishambles is stealing all the headlines at the moment. It pushes political incompetence to new limits. But behind the debacle lies a bigger crime. Boris Johnson is killing parliamentary democracy faster than the pandemic is killing people. And though Labour is immeasurably more virtuous, the Party struggles to lay a glove on…
Robin Hood Dies: the legend lives on As news hits the press about the imminent demise of Nottingham’s Robin Hood Energy company (RHE), I took a look at the plinth in front of St Mary’s church in the middle of Nottingham. The plinth offers a mythical version of Robin Hood’s demise; slowly being ‘bled’ to…
Tipping or turning: the choice is still ours We are in a bad place; a really bad place. The IMF predicts that the Covid pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5% this year, with a cumulative loss of around $9 trillion. Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) records a ‘lockdown’ economic collapse of over…
(Freedom and Democracy) Across the world, sports men and women have been ‘taking the knee’ in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. What troubles me is the prospect of this becoming a trivialised gesture, wrapped up in processes that change nothing. Stripped of specific, disruptive, demands it could slip intothe trough of gesture politics.…
The images of motorway tailbacks, even before Britain’s lockdown period officially loosened, brought two things home to me. The first was that, without clear leadership, crises always take you perilously close to collective insanity. I’m sure none of the families who decided it was a good moment to nip off to the coast (or the…
Transformation Moment
My pamphlet 'Transformation Moment' is intended to support the case for a radical shift in energy thinking; as much about democracy as technology, and about 'systems' rather than just supply.
Dear @Everton
We are due to play @ManUtd soon at Goodison. I am sure I speak on behalf of my fellow blues when I ask , please can we put something on the screens before the game to thank @MarcusRashford for his superb humanitarian work.
Dear MEPs, your vague distant climate targets will have no meaning if you fail to #VoteThisCAPdown and keep supporting the commercial lobby interests.
This is your chance to turn empty words into action. The eyes of future generations are upon you. No more excuses.#FututreOfCAP
Utter genius. Watch and weep with laughter. Then just weep.
As the government knows only too well, in parliament lies are ok, calling them out isn’t.
@wallaceme This is no defence of her, but as an answer to your question she can claim she called him scum because he said something else inaccurate (such as she was speaking for the whole front bench).
Bless all those in the unelected Chamber who believe that government cannot give itself the right to act illegally. If this Bill isn’t stopped or changed, perhaps MPs must look at stopping parliament from functioning at all.
The House of Lords has just voted by huge majority of 226 to indicate its likely rejection of Johnson’s Internal Market Bill provisions for override the Good Friday Agreement & international law
564 peers voted: one of the largest votes in the entire history of the Lords!
Cambridge Analytica documents dumped online last night prove the data hacker’s involvement with both the Leave EU & official Vote Leave campaigns, as well as further evidence of connection between Bannon, Farage & Aaron Banks - killing the theory it didn’t intervene in Brexit.
Boris may not have noticed but Canada does not have a land frontier with Europe. The UK/Northern Ireland does. Makes customs dodging a much bigger issue
BREAKING: Boris Johnson says the UK must prepared for no trade deal with the EU from Jan 1
Says EU not willing to give UK a Canada style deal
If the EU comes back "with a fundamental change of opinion" then the UK will listen. But says that doesn't sound likely after the summit
Understanding the politics of the lockdown| Morning Star
The Prisoner: are we the new Number 6?
The organised incoherence of government policies creates the perfect cover for Johnson’s deconstruction of democracy, with a ruthless transfer of po...
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Really important. We can begin with targets to put nature back into school grounds and re-greening our streets. Rotherham’s ‘Rivers of Flowers’ project on main roads is a real inspiration.
With @DarrenG_Henry {obviously} voting down amendments to protect standards of imported food & to introduce targets to reduce pesticide use is there anything we can do @broxtowebc to act on this evidence that diverse nature in play areas boosts kids’ immune systems? @sjprest