I'm abroad at the moment so don't have any impression of the marches. I absolutely agree that anti-semitism is evil, and also baffling, like being against anyone over 6 feet tall or some other irrele… (View Post)

I think that as one gets older the difficulty of classifying people as simply left or right wing becomes more obvious. It's tempting for newspaper articles but like you most of us have simply become … (View Post)

I used to have freelance translation as a useful second income, but the market has almost completely collapsed in the last 4 years. My niche was legislative translation, which you'd think would be re… (View Post)

I'm not too happy in membership, for the reasons in my other post, but that doesn't in my experience describe a party meeting accurately. The people who are unhappy tend to stop attending meetings. T… (View Post)

I'm still a Labour member, and chair of my constituency party. I disagree with a number of current policies, in particular the large cut in foreign aid and the large increase in military spending, bu… (View Post)