The campaign for Andy Burnham’s leadership seems dreary and wet. It’s really, really not.
The media’s pornographic use of murder for hits is astoundingly pathetic
Two US journalists were killed on live TV. What did the other journalists do? Have a field day.
We cannot let racist caricatures become the new norm in our national press
Daily Mail publishes racist cartoon. Are we surprised? No. And that’s worrying.
The anti-Corbyn hysteria is founded on shoddy politics and even shoddier history
The Past Historians tells us to learn from the mistakes of the past. Every repetition of that bromide covers up how selectively we see the past. In 1983 the Labour Party limped in second place at the general election, ruined in part by a swathe of its right breaking away to form what would later become the Liberal Democrats and …
‘Lad culture’ is a pathetic excuse for a much darker problem
We’ve invented a nice, cutesy term for a horrible, vicious reality. And we need to stop.
Why I’m done with the austerity-on-speed circle jerk that is the EU
Solidarity is great, right, but you’ve got to actually mean it. Like the cruciatus curse. Right? Right.
The Labour Right is magnificently self-destructing
I’d feel sorry for the Blairites if their plight weren’t so damned funny.
Redundant workers eclipsed by Dublin’s most famous clock
We seem to care more about vague cultural icons than actual people.
You are not a pathetic Ozymandias: Keep asking for help
Never stop trying.
We get it, you read 1984 once. Sit down
Please stop saying that anything you find vaguely uncomfortable is “Orwellian”.