Archive for the 'RESPECT' Category

 

Reflections on the London elections

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Mayor Johnson
The headline news is, of course, the victory of Boris Johnson. It is no secret (at least if you’ve been reading this blog!) that I was and remain a strong supporter of Ken Livingstone and that I have very grave doubts about the Johnson mayoralty. I have tried to draw a comparison between […]

 

Stop the War Coalition and Channel Four

Monday, January 14th, 2008

A group has been set up on Facebook called (in capitals, so it must be important) ‘Vote Stop the War Coalition for Channel 4 News Award’. It reads rather like the headlines of spam emails and the content of the group is similarly inaccurate. The award in question is ‘most inspiring political personality of the […]

 

disRESPECT - the disunity coalition

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I have read in various places that RESPECT is having problems. It seems that George Galloway and the SWP have fallen out and now there are letters flying around. I suspect that some poor sods are having frequent ‘emergency meetings’, or whatever the correct term is, at unsociable hours.
I had the misfortune to come across […]