David Cameron's gun-toting trade tour is a much-needed reminder of imperialism's real interest in the Middle East, writes James Turley When David Cameron delivered a speech attacking multiculturalism last month, much of the inevitable controversy focused on his timing - it coincided with an English Defence League protest - which turned out to ...
Should the left 'defend multiculturalism'? James Turley looks at the reactions to David Cameron's weekend speech. Last weekend saw some peculiarly malign coincidences for all those opposed to the onward march of racist and bigoted ideology. Most frivolously, the BBC was forced to issue a formal apology on Friday after the three stars ...
The Tories are showing themselves up as the party of corruption, says James Turley Michael Ashcroft, the Tory peer and deputy chairman, is one of a handful in the House of Lords who has non-domiciled tax status - that is, for tax purposes he is not registered as resident in Britain. Instead, his notional home is ...
Both the media and bourgeois politicians want us to concentrate on personal strengths and weaknesses. But that is not the main issue, argues James Turley The British election season is heating up, in more ways than one. Firstly, and most prominently displayed in the last week, the dirty tricks are getting dirtier. Gordon Brown has become the ...
Mike Macnair explains why the CPGB recommended a Labour vote on June 4 The political dynamics of the scandal over MPs’ expenses claims are becoming clearer. The dominant dynamic of hatred for the corruption of the parties and MPs is towards a ‘democratic’ but rightwing populism which aims to produce an apolitical politics, a politics without ...
Since he became prime minister, Gordon Brown’s standing in the polls has plummeted - but can that guy really be benefiting? James Turley looks at the Cameroons It is a good time, it seems, to be a Tory. The Conservative Party is consistently obliterating Labour in the opinion polls. Despite Gordon Brown’s ‘unifying’ speech at the latter ...
Carey Davies reports on the Conservative ‘remedies’ for a ‘broken society’ The Tories’ response to the departure of Tony Blair and the efforts of the Brown government to re-christen the New Labour project - not to mention ...