I went to the vigil on Clapham Common last night with two of my best friends. On our way there we talked about a friend of ours who had reported an abusive partner to the police, and was met with something close to polite disinterest. We talked about someone else we knew who had taken her abuser through the courts, all the…
Photo Credit: Tyler Merbler This year, accompanying Covid-19, we have witnessed a pandemic of conspiracy theories, most of them alleging the disease is a Trojan horse for an authoritarian takeover or a population-culling vaccine. Anti-lockdown protests bridge ideological divides, uniting the far-right with anti-Big Pharma types, and they exhibit how conspiracists are unlikely to believe in only one theory. A prominent Covid-19…
We’re back! Jasper chats to Peter Mason, National Secretary of the Jewish Labour Movement, to delve into the EHRC’s Report on antisemitism within Labour, its long-term history and why left wing thought is susceptible to it plus the future for JLM, and much more. iTunes
Jasper meets singer/songwriter Jermain Jackman, and Labour activists Jake Cable and Amen Tesfay, to discuss the 1987 Caucus, a new movement to enhance the representation and power of black men within Labour. They discuss racism in Labour, changing public perceptions of racism, how the Conservative Party may be trying to appeal to black voters, and much more. Theme composed by Katrina Toner.…
In light of the murder of George Floyd, Jasper speaks to Richie Floyd, an organiser for the Democratic Socialists of America in Florida, to discuss the protests in the USA, abolishing the police, the intersection of racism and capitalism, and much more. Our new theme was composed by Katrina Toner: https://soundcloud.com/user-197477190 iTunes Link
I was initially approached to write a few words for the Social Review about the work of the 1987 Caucus and the under-representation of Black men within the Labour Party. However, recent events in Minnesota and across the United States have become impossible to ignore. The killing of George Floyd is an all too familiar American story. A “routine” police stop for…
As a trans person I suppose I ought to be thankful for the fact that, broadly, it is considered good and right for those up and coming within the Labour party (or those, at least, adjacent to its Twittery or youthful wings) to vocally proclaim support for “trans rights”. There is a certain kind of Online Leftist who seems to wield their…
Image Credit: Press Association It’s always foolish to talk about ‘where the left is failing’ in broad-brushstroke terms, but if there’s one change I wish would be made to popular leftist discourse, it would be to talk more clearly and accessibly about power. Arundhati Roy, in 2014’s Capitalism: A Ghost Story, lays out the problem of becoming entrenched in a human-rights discourse…
