Some important points in the header. The balkans have been a reference point throughout, but we need to remember that the west's conduct there during the 1990s has been far from the exemplar of … (View Post)

Labour, with the Tories' very successful culture war being waged, is still an equally very long journey away from regaining red wall votes, and expelling Corbyn would mainly only help in margina… (View Post)

Whatever Corbyn's oversights may have been, the moment is not comparable however. Militant, in proportionate numbers, were a very small faction ; Corbyn enjoys support from a very substantial gr… (View Post)

I say it neutrally. I was a partial, not total, critic of Corbyn, generally being closer to Ed Miliband's views. He just can't go through with a promise like that, wherever one might stand … (View Post)

I do like the idea of Bernie Sanders as an F1 boss, and Bernie Ecclestone as the big hope of the American grassroots college Left. (View Post)