Wirral Cllrs Yvonne Nolan and Sue Mahoney deselected by Labour – after demonstrating against deselection of Nolan’s carer for not attending enough out-of-ward door-knocking sessions. Nolan and her carer have been replaced by imposed right-wingers The deputy leader of Wirral Council, Rock Ferry councillor Yvonne Nolan, will stand against Labour as an independent after the […]
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Unable even to scrape two nominees together – and leaving almost 200 hundred seats uncontested in May’s council elections because it couldn’t find candidates willing to represent Starmer The Labour party last week claimed it has a ‘paid-up’ membership of 382,000. Even if this were true, it would represent a massive fall in membership compared […]
Voters continue to see through Keir Starmer, leading to catastrophic falls in his approval rating – especially among usual Labour voters – according to new polling. Dissatisfaction with Starmer among voters generally grew by five points, according to the IPSOS poll – while dissastisfaction with the awful Rishi Sunak fell by the same amount – […]
In the latest installment of the Missing Links series, Jim Mamer explores written history's outlook on women and the disparity between men and women in textbooks.
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Starmer’s unfitness as leader didn’t just emerge when he conned his way into Labour top job, at least according to survey of staff during his tenure as DPP Keir Starmer and his acolytes like to make much about the fact that he was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) before becoming an MP and therefore […]
‘If it’s innocent, why delete it?’ The anonymous Facebook page buying ads to support pro-Graham candidates in the Unite executive elections was deleted hours after Skwawkbox exposed it on Monday. The page, named ‘Executive Council Elections’, had originally been set up in December under the name ‘The Manifesto’, but re-named to buy a string of […]
Solidarity and well done NEU teachers for standing firm as others w Teachers have resoundingly rejected the government’s insulting and almost entirely unfunded pay ‘offer’ and agreed further strikes for 24 April and 2 May. The government’s ‘deal’ represented a huge real-terms pay cut and would have placed an even greater burden on schools that […]
Anonymous group paying for ads touting candidates supportive of general secretary accused of trying to destroy evidence in misogyny and bullying complaints against husband Unaccountable cash is at play in the elections for the executive of the Unite union. An anonymised page with no named administrators or followers has been ploughing cash into advertising to […]
During the first lockdown, I thought I was uniquely prepared for it. I was wrong.
From Iraq War veterans to a young Mike Tyson and her own brother’s battle with AIDS, Grinker’s photographs open a window from the personal into the political.
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