Author Archives: Chris Jury

New Labour politicians love the phrase “Politics is the art of the possible.” The full quote is “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best” said by Otto von Bismarck, the first … Continue reading →

Alt-Right conspiracy theorists like to suggest that a nefarious, wealthy, elite are secretly conspiring with each other to run the world in their own interests, rather than in the interests of humanity.  This is obviously true.  Even a modest knowledge … Continue reading →

The civil war in the LP was NEVER about antisemitism. It was and is about the threat a Corbyn led LP represents to the careers of the cynical, unscrupulous, unprincipled, centrist liberal, professional politicians who infiltrated and misappropriated the resources … Continue reading →

This is a tough one and potentially controversial and I’m still trying to work out if I really think what I really really think I think about this. A very noticeable shift in rhetoric of Starmer’s LP is towards an … Continue reading →

The execrable Toby Young is giving Laurence Fox his full support for the toff-actor’s new political party Reclaim. With Andrew Neil setting up the UK’s own Fox News called GB News, the UK is lurching further and further to the … Continue reading →

I’m afraid the last five years have confirmed my previously held suspicion that in terms of challenging neoliberalism, the Labour Party is part of the problem rather than the solution. I am now convinced that for the left social democratic … Continue reading →