/ December 11, 2015 at 9:22 AM
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In case you missed them, here’s our selection of the best posts for 10th December 2015 featured on Guerilla Wire. Open Labour: Looking outward at last? Neil Schofield The reality of Labour MP deselection campaigns Alex Little We need a…
/ November 5, 2015 at 9:15 AM
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In case you missed them, here’s the most popular posts for 5th November 2015 featured on Guerilla Wire. Working class people are less likely to vote and making it easier to vote wont change that Thomas Neumark Snoopers Charter –…
/ May 28, 2015 at 8:48 PM
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/ May 28, 2015 at 8:47 PM
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/ May 11, 2015 at 6:09 PM
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On Saturday 2nd May the front page of The Independent featured a story concerning police brutality linked with racism which caused considerable anger within the police service. Here, Chris Hobbs responds to the story. Dear Editor, Both serving and retired…
/ May 3, 2015 at 9:22 AM
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This playlet is set an almost parallel universe except that in this universe the Home Secretary’s record in office is just about to be examined by a certain Mr. Paxman. The scene is the Home Secretary’s office. She is tripping…
/ April 21, 2015 at 10:33 PM
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Hundreds of angry police officers together with former now retired colleagues, PCSOs and police staff have signed an open letter bitterly condemning both the damaging cutbacks to policing and the fact that these cutbacks have failed to become a major…
/ April 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM
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Originally posted on Natalie Leal 1. If there is a link between welfare reform and the boom in food bank use Everyone else seems pretty certain with a mountain of evidence from academics, churches and charities finding the two are linked. The…
/ March 2, 2015 at 1:46 PM
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On July 5th 1948 in Manchester Labour Secretary of State for Health Aneurin Bevan announced the birth of the NHS. On March 27th 2015 in Manchester Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne signed a piece of paper that would bring about the…
/ January 30, 2015 at 10:43 AM
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Today I’m reflecting on a comment. A few days ago a relative asked if I wanted a glass of wine with dinner; I declined, explaining it didn’t mix well with my meds. Someone else, overhearing this, expressed irritation that my…
/ January 27, 2015 at 7:51 AM
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Yes, I know I’m late to the party. You’ve had a good few days to gloat over your little coup. Pulling the wool over the eyes of the boring, prudish types who dared to tell you what to do. Hope…
/ January 7, 2015 at 7:46 AM
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Debate over Ched Evans is at fever pitch & yes, I have been in the midst of disagreements around Ched Evans & his right to return to a role within his profession. Football. I tend to hang around with grown ups capable…
/ December 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM
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I am going to define lazy ideas as those that are easily understood – perhaps even implicitly – and yet are demonstrably false. Here’s a few that will be familiar to my regular readers. Feel free to add to them…
/ November 26, 2014 at 7:49 AM
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This blog post follows on from yesterday’s review of the acquittal by a jury of the ‘High Down 11’ on all charges of prison mutiny. As regular readers will be aware, these eleven prisoners were involved in a protest against…
/ November 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM
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Yesterday, I went to a Bristol Festival of Ideas debate about housing, with a panel of experts (Kate Barker, Julia Unwin, Prof Alex Marsh, Prof Michael Ball and Diane Coyle) and a pretty good number in the audience for a Saturday afternoon.…
/ November 16, 2014 at 10:18 PM
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I have just read an account of how powerful are the dynamics driving capitalism. Ellen Meiksins Wood wrote “The Origin of Capitalism” (Verso) in 2002. I find her thesis compelling. Although capitalism has become a major component in the planet-trashing…
/ November 14, 2014 at 8:25 AM
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Dear John Bercow, I was incredibly naive when I started campaigning for the rights of people with long term health conditions and disabilities. I believed passionately in democracy and that here in the UK, we had one of the best…
/ November 11, 2014 at 9:09 PM
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I acknowledge the value and importance that many people place upon evidencing their remembrance of the killed and maimed combatants and non-combatants from past wars and violent conflicts. People do this by wearing poppies (both red and white), attending parades and…
/ November 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM
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I cannot imagine there are sensible adults who want to live in a culture in which child sexual exploitation is a new social norm in some or any communities. Yet there are sensible adults who are not doing all they…
/ November 5, 2014 at 9:40 PM
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This is all from the Hansard report for 3rd November. “John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne) (Lab): Why are jobcentre staff being told to say to people “We are not here to help you to find work; we are simply here to check…
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