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Opposing War Doesn’t Make You A Kremlin Mouthpiece, Mr Starmer

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It was the French Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre that said, “When the rich wage war it is the poor who die”, and Vladimir Putin, apparently worth some $200 billion, has unleashed a taster of his $150 billion annual military budget on the second poorest country in Europe. I’m no expert on geopolitical warfare, but thankfully we do have thousands of former epidemiologists that seemed to have hastily retrained as military experts to keep us informed of the latest developments.  You probably know my thoughts on war. There are no winners. Most conflicts begin and end with words. Military involvement should only be an act of self-defence, when we have exhausted every possibility of constructive dialogue.  But I’ll tell you what I find absolutely staggering…  The right, and much of the centre, seem to confuse a morally principled opposition to war as some sort of support for the Putin regime.  The centrists are particularly familiar with this ridiculously offensive conflation. You know, the one whe

Starmer’s Labour: This Is Not What A Democratic Socialist Party Should Look Like

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I’m staring at a blank canvas, wondering which direction I should go today, simply because it has been a comparatively unremarkable week in politics, given events of the last few weeks, months, and years. Parliament is in recess, but the pork pie plotters continue to plot, Johnson continues to pray for a war, in the hope of getting a poll bounce, and Starmer continues to put himself in front of the cameras, despite appearing to be as comfortable as a cow being sent to do work experience at an abattoir.  If you only read, watch and listen to the irreversibly polluted mainstream media - whose owners tend to be right-wing billionaires living in tax havens - you would probably think the Labour Party is preparing for government and everyone associated with the party thinks the dear leader is the political apotheosis. Imagine saying that with a straight face, just 3 years ago.  If you dig a bit further and read independent media - whose owners tend to be driven by a desire to speak truth to

A Perfidious Establishment Lickspittle: What Is The Point Of Starmer’s Labour?

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This won’t be one for the Starmer fanatics.  Neither of them. If you have ventured so far down the rabbit hole you find yourself sharing a remarkably similar burrow to the Conservatives, you may wish to click on the “done” button at the top of the page now.  If you have suddenly found the urge to tweet something like “I am proud that Keir Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party”, you probably shouldn’t be here - as welcome as you are - but your predictable response to everything is “Tory enabler”, while lavishing the praises of the political class, just because it happens to be wearing a red rosette.  Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is the political Territorial Army - albeit an utterly pusillanimous version.  The establishment's favourite former Director of Public Prosecutions Labour Party is the red part of the Tory Party that is made up of people who are not professional Tories, but are given Tory training for a period of time each year.  Let’s start with Starmer himself.  A Prime