Our Political System is run by big Money

How Political Interest groups are funded

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/17/lobbying-fears-as-mps-interest-groups-receive-13m-from-private-firms

17th February 2021

Labour’s lost voters clamour for belonging

Nationalism is the natural home for communities that have lost their sense of belonging

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/03/labours-lost-voters-clamour-belonging

3rd May 2021

Covid misinformation costs lives

George Monbiot argues that we have a duty to stop pernicious misinformation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/27/covid-lies-cost-lives-right-clamp-down-misinformation

27th January 2021

Politician’s love giving pledges for actions years in advance; it gives them the opportunity to look dynamic and ambitious  without the responsibility of achievement.

Of the 20 pledges at the UN Biodiversity conference at Nagoya, not one has been met.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/30/johnson-pledges-environment-un-biodiversity-summit

Britain’s claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep

Britain’s democratic processes are being abused

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/britain-democracy-tories-coronavirus-public-power

3rd June 2020

Local Politics

We need to revive community spirit and it starts with politics and finance

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/02/britain-local-councils-public-services

3rd August 2019

Optimism

Optimism can’t solve Britains’ problems; it can only disappoint.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/24/boris-johnson-optimism-sales-pitch-only-disappoint

2nd August 2019

Strongman politics

Obama on the politics of fear and disinformation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/17/obama-criticises-strongman-politics-coded-attack-trump

18th July 2018

Trump creates his caliphate

The misuse of piety in justifying the unjustifiable

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/trump-american-caliphate-democracy-arab-world

18th June 2018

Hundreds of pledges quietly forgotten

On how ‘consultation’ is used to get politicians off the hook

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hundreds-of-government-pledges-the-tories-have-quietly-forgotten-6kwt879bg

30th March 2018