Monthly Archives: February 2023

An explanation has been offered but that won’t stop Matt Hancock getting into trouble for it. The former Health Secretary, who has been accused of being involved in the waste of £600 million on useless contracts for Personal Protective Equipment … Continue reading →

Is there no end to the idiocy of our Tory government? Apparently our supermarkets have run short of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. The excuse is that imports from Spain and Morocco have been hit by frosty weather. Challenged on the … Continue reading →

This is what I get for missing Not the Andrew Marr Show. On Sunday, it featured award-winning human rights lawyer and former legal advisor to the Race Relations Board, Geoffrey Bindman KC, who exposed the failures of both The Guardian and The Observer to report … Continue reading →

Speechless: remember when, challenged to explain how a teenage refugee from an African country might legally gain asylum in the UK, Suella Braverman had nothing to say? It’s a different story when she’s asked about protests against asylum-seekers who have … Continue reading →

In 2017, I wrote an article about the Still Face Paradigm, and the decline of empathy in Neoliberal societies. It was about Edward Tronick’s Still Face experiment, in part. Tronick is an American developmental psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His studies illuminate the … Continue reading →

Do you think she’d be able to stay resigned, if she decided to actually do it this time? Suella Braverman reckons she’ll head for the backbenches if Rishi Sunak’s latest attempt to negotiate a deal to replace the Northern Ireland … Continue reading →

This should finally kill off all the arguments that refugees should stay in the first safe country they reach: if all countries said this, it would destroy the international asylum system. Watch the video in which Zoe Gardner of the … Continue reading →

What was Sonia Sodha thinking? “Keir Starmer was right to exile Corbyn,” she wrote. “Labour has a duty to voters, not to rebellious members.” And: “The party leader correctly sent a signal that democracy is about winning votes, not indulging … Continue reading →

The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s decision to whitewash the Labour Party’s disciplinary proceedings seems doubly contradictory when one considers the words of one of that process’s victims, below. I’m aware that what’s described below isn’t directly related to the … Continue reading →