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Why the throat?
I try not to join in twitterstorms, but the one about Michael Fabricant MP’s threat to punch a woman in the throat does bring with it an interesting question. Why the throat? Why not the more common...
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Reflections on Rotherham: part 2 of 3
Introduction to part 2 In part 1 of this critical engagement Professor Alexis Jay’s report on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham, the focus was mainly on the factors which drove the upsurge...
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A left-liberal approach to restricting workers’ freedom (and outflanking UKIP)
Cameron and his team are looking to outflank UKIP by restricting access to National Insurance numbers as a way of capping lower skilled worker entry to the UK labour market. This, as Barroso says, is...
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On the concept of totty
While creating the links for my previous post, I came upon this quite unpleasant post from right-wing blogger Tim Worstall, in which he introduces the concept of “underage totty”. Underage totty in...
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The labour movement’s post-election battleground: Part I of II
1 Introduction Back in January, I was invited by Left Futures to provide a response to a post by Trevor Fisher. Trevor considers Labour a lost cause when it comes to austerity. This is his...
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Zero hour contract legislation: let’s be careful what we wish for
Today Ed Miliband has made a key promise: We have to end the epidemic of zero hours contracts. So today I can announce that in our first year of government after the election, Labour will pass a law...
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The options for the return of legitimate governance in Tower Hamlets
Luftur Rahman is now, in law, the ex-Mayor of Tower Hamlets, the Electoral Commission (sitting as judge) having found him guilty of electoral fraud. The detail of the verdict need not concern us here....
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The coming unintended consequence of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011
With Labour a) likely to be in a better position than the Tories to form a government after May 7th; and b) ruling out any kind of binding deal with the SNP or the Libdems, and insteaf looking to...
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Coasting schools and the new authoritarianism
There’s something deeply disturbing about section 1 of the new Education & Adoption Bill, according to which the Secretary of State will get to turn a maintained school into an academy if she...
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Hungary and article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty
One strange consequence of ‘the refugee crisis’ [1] now in full flow in Europe has been the spotlight put on the nature of the Hungarian regime, and the views of Prime Minister Orban on what Europe’s...
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