Shocking news this evening with the death of Terry Hall, lead singer in The Specials, at just 63. A great...
Year: 2022
2022 has proven to be the year when the trade union movement rose from a long slumber. Days lost due...
As we head into 2023, the United Kingdom is doing what it does best - a thumping recession. I've lost...
We are now seeing the return of the demon of inflation - a monster we thought had been slain thirty...
I recently came across the record of a debate in the House of Lords on 18 December 1986 that took...
Woke up in the middle of the night recently and realised I'd been dreaming about a sweet shop that used...
1979 was a general election year in the UK and Margaret Thatcher was about to become Prime Minister. Tensions were...
The late 1970s saw some shocking racist attacks in east London. But it also witnessed the beginning of a fightback...
In this series of blog posts I'm looking at the problem of the extreme Right in the 1970s and the...
The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...