Turkey –despite continuing oppression ‘there is hope’
This year’s Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT) conference planned for 28 March in London was a victim of the pandemic lock-down, Since then attacks on democracy have been stepped up with continuing crackdowns on civil society, independent media and political...
Nomination for a vacant plinth
Quite rightly and not before time a number of plinths that supported some abominable racist representatives of British imperialism are now vacant. Whilst the statue of Bristol’s slave trader Edward Colston has been dredged up from Bristol Harbour for its second coming...
Holding Government to account – it’s time to stop the power grab
“If elected on 12 December”, I wrote on 26 November 2019 in my blog The Tory manifesto – an Executive ‘power grab’ – we have been warned" will a new Tory government unleash an attack on some of the democratic traditions we have taken for granted for many years? After...