Michael Gove as Education Secretary, was more terrifying than any horror film his late friend Christopher Lee starred in throughout a sixty year career. His inability to listen to anyone with vast teaching experience and his pig-headed belief in his [...]
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Europe. The very word conjures up pictures of unelected bureaucrats and no-mark politicians sitting in a distant parliament passing laws on how much a banana can bend and imposing dodgy things like human rights on us. The European Union (EU) [...]
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John Grindrod, Concretopia – a Journey round the rebuilding of post-war Britain (Old Street, 2013). Concretopia is almost certainly the first history of the post-war modernist project in British cities and towns, and it is without doubt the first to try [...]
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This article is written in response to ‘Trotskyism at the end of the war and the democratic struggle’, a recent essay by Tim Nelson of the International Socialist Network (ISN). The piece follows the perspectives of Felix Morrow and Albert [...]
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