Right, so I assume you were all up bright and early to get to your post picket line (unless of course, like me you live nowhere near a big mail centre, and have to wait till tomorrow morning for the delivery offices). But it doesn’t stop there. This is the day when the BNP’s Fuhrer [...]
I do not need to go into the reasons why we should support the post workers strike. It is covered very well here and elsewhere. Anyway I will be heading down to Mount Pleasant for about 9 am. Please do make the effort to get down to your local picket line and show some solidarity. [...]
Tomorrow, for the first time, the leader of a fascist party will appear on the panel of a televised national debate. Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has caused quite a stir in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. Some, remaining steadfast to the principle of no platform, have campaigned vigorously against the BBC’s [...]
Ah, Twitter. That bite-sized break from ennui, that stream of consciousness, that tool of social mobilisation… but mobilisation to what? Twitter has played an important part in the democratisation of politics – witness the Tweets of solidarity from Iran and the recent downfall of the Carter Ruck’s Trafigura injunction against The Guardian (which was also in [...]
Guest post by Ruth Lukom A new coffee bar has opened at the bottom of our road. It is modern, stylish and the smell of coffee and cakes is very inviting. It is a Women Only café. I live in Waltham Forest, an area with a high Muslim population. For the past 20 -30 years [...]
Is it not enough that we choose to lock our children up in institutions for twelve years without exposing them to what is becoming a grave system of Machiavellian management structures? These days people do MBAs in education, so-called “super-heads” are earning in excess of £100k a year, and schools are being transformed into multi-level [...]
Guest post by Christos Loutradis Following our coverage of this month’s Greek elections, The Third Estate continues its partnership with Press-Gr, one of the foremost news sites in Greece, by inviting Christos Loutradis to look at the country’s thawing relations with Turkey. Where a Prime Minister chooses to visit on his or her first trip [...]
(For the benefit of any new readers, FJM is explained here. But to be honest, it’s not very complicated. You’ll probably get the idea pretty quickly.) It’s been a good week, both for the liberal left and for Twitter. First there was the whole Trafigura thing, which finally came to a decisive end yesterday evening, [...]
Guest post by Carl Packman “You know, you already sent 21,000 troops. You might send 65,000 troops. That’s not a Peace Prize-acting activity.” That’s what the lifelong civil rights activist and cautious Obama supporter, Dr Cornel West, had to say about the president’s surprise reception of the Nobel Peace Prize whilst promoting his new memoir [...]
When I was a child autumn was my favourite time of year – a time of conkers, new stationery and better TV. However, as an adult, I have learned to dread the approach of autumn because it now heralds an ancient evil… Like many self-employed people autumn signifies the underfoot crunch of scrunched up receipts, [...]
