In the run-up to the Morocco-France soccer match that was held on Dec. 14, a French tourist – an 82-year-old woman – was murdered in… Read More »Tourism In Muslim Lands 

Three years ago today, I was trudging around the streets of Blackpool – for what would be the final time – to get out the vote on… Read More »Three years on from the 2019 election, Labour can win again in Blackpool South – LabourList

UNRELIABLE STATISTICS, Green Party edition Caroline Lucas is a cornucopia. Unreliable Statistics has to be filled, and the sometime leader of the Green Party filled… Read More »Unreliable Stats (Green Edition), Scots: Go, If You’re Hard Enough, Détente in the Commons, Compulsory Tributes

“We’ve had 12 years of a Conservative government who, quite frankly, are failing the people of this country on so many levels,” Paula Barker tells… Read More »“Failing absolutely catastrophically”: Paula Barker on Tory housing policy – LabourList

When I met Albert Hoffman in Basle in the late 1970s I had no idea who he was. At a pharmacy student conference, he was… Read More »Return of the Psychedelics…

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”… Read More »No Sh*t, Sherlock! – politicalbetting.com

Republican lawmakers broadly acknowledge now that climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed. But they put their policy emphasis on supporting U.S.… Read More »Trump pulled America out of Paris. So why are these Republicans in Dubai?

Men remove an air conditioner in advance of a building demolition in New Delhi.Naveen Sharma/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears… Read More »In India, a growing need for AC could add to global heating

It’s hard to argue that the American Civil Liberties Union (or ACLU) isn’t a very, very, very leftwing organization. While the group claims its mission… Read More »Strange Bedfellows Alert: ACLU Announces They’ll Represent… The NRA

Free speech is suddenly a major value of college presidents: Yesterday, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Read More »Ivy League double standards