Author of 'The March That Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003' (Peace News Press, 2013) and co-author of 'A Timeline of the Plague Year' (2021).
Joined March 2011
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I'm guessing @BBC6Music won't want to hear from any of the people physically attacked by Amy Winehouse in their callout asking listeners to get in touch with any stories about Winehouse? The anodyne reality propagated by the BBC on days like these doesn't do anyone any favours.
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives" morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Great overview of the life of US socialist giant Eugene Debs from @JoeEDwyer in the @M_Star_Online morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Moving letter explaining why legalising assisted dying is so important theguardian.com/society/2026…
The Morning Star is different from other UK national newspapers: "Our demands must be clear: i) US troops, weapons and nukes out of Britain, ii) Britain out of Nato, iii) end British bases abroad." morningstaronline.co.uk/arti… @medialens
'Burnham, for all his “good vibes” at home, has been just as eager as Starmer to prostate himself to Trump and has continued the policy of allowing the use of British bases for US aggression.' morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Lots of interesting bits of info in the SAS in Syria story in the Times - e.g. the SAS captured some suspects and took them to Foreign Office "approved" Kuridsh prisons archive.ph/pgrOU @ElwinWay
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One very noticeable difference between the @M_Star_Online and pretty much every other national newspaper in the UK is the Morning Star actively encourages its readers to participate directly in politics morningstaronline.co.uk/arti… @kernow4corbyn
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Like night and day. Guardian Diplomatic Editor: the UK is a "clear opponent" of the US war on Iran theguardian.com/world/2026/a…. @M_Star_Online editorial: "Britain is... wholly complicit in Donald Trump’s war" morningstaronline.co.uk/arti… @kernow4corbyn @medialens
The lack of support for additional taxes for social care always surprises me morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Shocking. 'Private equity companies and sovereign wealth funds now own or partly own 11 of the 20 largest providers of fostering and children’s homes in England, as calls to ban “obscene” profit-making in children’s care grow.' theguardian.com/society/2026…
'Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.' theguardian.com/environment/…
.@comrade_kumar_ says a belief in a two state solution is Zionist. But haven't Arafat and Hamas shown support for a two state solution? What am I missing? xitter.cf/comrade_kumar_/status/…
Interesting article from Michael Burke looking at why the Attlee government lost the 1951 election - possibly connected to UK military pending and UK foreign policy morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
"We’re seeing for the first time in British history Palestine become a domestic issue, electorally, at the national level and at the local level" - Aimee Shalan, Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign theguardian.com/politics/202…
Important documentary from Channel 4 Dispatches: 'Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed' channel4.com/programmes/brit…
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I do think the disconnect between how some people describe Andy Burnham - Owen Jones called him ‘one of the few nice guys in politics’, for example - and his long history of facilitating mass atrocity crimes from positions of power is politically interesting.
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham is considering requests from Saudi Arabia for a range of military support to counter attacks from the Houthis, as the UK fears a “catastrophic” economic hit from a new front in the Iran war.
The Saudi asks include operational support for its military to repel the Houthis’ push along the Red Sea coast toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key trade chokepoint, and help to defend against strikes on its oil infrastructure, sources tell Bloomberg.
Burnham has agreed to send British military advisers to Saudi Arabia in response to the requests, sources say. It’s unclear whether he’s willing to approve the other asks, which haven’t been disclosed by the UK government. The Foreign Office and MoD declined to answer questions.
Burnham is facing one of his first major foreign policy and economic dilemmas since he became PM. Britain is determined not to get drawn into the conflict, not least because it didn’t support Trump’s war on Iran. Yet the crisis poses serious challenges ahead of next month’s budget.
Burnham has been advised by his officials that if the Houthis take control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait it will have a “catastrophic” impact on international shipping and provide another hit to the global economy through a further spike in the oil price and inflation, the sources said.
The Houthi attacks have sent Brent crude toward $110 a barrel. Gilts extended a drop today as money markets added to bets on Bank of England interest rate rises off the back of inflation fears. Traders now fully price five quarter-point BoE hikes by the end of 2027, an outcome that would badly complicate the PM’s key pledge to reduce the cost-of-living.
The Treasury is also worried that the recent escalation is taking place as the OBR prepares its economic and fiscal forecasts for the budget. John Healey had been hoping for a market reprieve during the assessment window. Instead it’s going further in the wrong direction and potentially leaving the chancellor with even more of a fiscal hole.
Under Rishi Sunak the UK hit Houthi targets in Yemen to combat disruption in the Red Sea. Under Keir Starmer it deployed Sky Sabre air defences to help Riyadh.
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