Just 44 days into the job, embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss has just announced her resignation. Already among the more forgettable people in the world, with this move Truss consigns herself to the dustbin of history as nothing but a potentially tricky trivia question for future generations. It doesn’t come as much of a …
Is Britain Really A Democracy?By Ian SinclairMorning Star7 July 2022 Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze in January, Jeremy Black, Professor Emeritus of History at Exeter University, strongly opposed the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in June 2020. “Since 1928 we have had a full, equal parliamentary democracy… we […]
Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In other breaking news that’s just as likely to seriously impact your life, Big Mo is returning to Eastenders and Jacques from Love Island has a stain on his underwear. That really is the level this news belongs on. Soap operas and trash TV. …
Book review: Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice by Chris Saltmarshby Ian SinclairPeace NewsApril-May 2022 Though he doesn’t mention it in this book, I imagine activist Chris Saltmarsh is a big fan of the Chico Mendes quote that often appears on Twitter: ‘Environmentalism Without Class Struggle is Just Gardening.’ For Saltmarsh, ‘the root cause of climate […]
If Vladimir Putin is to be tried as a war criminal, why not Gordon Brown?by Ian SinclairMorning Star5 April 2022 Last month former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was among 140 academics, lawyers and politicians who signed a petition calling for a Nuremberg-style trial for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine. Appearing […]
“The climate crisis is a crisis of capitalism”: Chris Saltmarsh interviewby Ian SinclairMorning Star11 March 2022 Published at the end of last year, Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice is the first book from Chris Saltmarsh, socialist climate campaigner and the co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal. With top climate scientist James Hansen recently […]
Why is no one talking about how senior Labour Party figures whitewash apartheid?by Ian SinclairMorning Star25 February 2022 Amnesty International’s recent report condemning Israel for “committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” is a damning indictment of the current Israeli government (and its predecessors), and its supporters around the world. After carrying out research for […]
Munich – The Edge Of War: glossing over the British Empireby Ian SinclairMorning Star4 February 2022 A pretty good, sometimes gripping, political thriller, the new movie Munich – The Edge Of War, based on Robert Harris’s 2017 novel, includes a couple of obvious howlers. First, the film’s Adolf Hitler is so bad it becomes comical. […]
Book review. Roads, Runways and Resistance: From The Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion by Steve Meliaby Ian SinclairPeace NewsOctober-November 2021 Steve Melia has taken a topic that could be dully technical and written a book that is both interesting and infused with a sense of urgency in terms of the climate crisis. Underpinned with 50 […]
The New Corporation: Joel Bakan interviewby Ian SinclairMorning Star17 March 2021 Published in 2004 alongside the 2003 film documentary of the same name, Joel Bakan’s The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power was a timely and influential critique of the central institution of contemporary capitalism. Bakan, Professor of Law at the University of […]
