Dear Friends please see below some of my comments to the Guardian along with the article headings to which I responded, hope this gives a flavour of my take on current affairs
So far so good but where’s the beef?
Rent controls and renters charter
Fair taxation, equalise capital gains and income tax.
Windfall taxes on oil and gas corporations, banks and hedge funds, privatised rip offs
Water put into socialised co-ops
Green new deal now and total commitment to net zero
Arms embargo on Israel
End privatised Social care, massive training program for youth to work in health and social care.
Money to local government to fix schools, community facilities, new council housing, rebuild the high streets and fix the potholes
Start doing all those things, all of which are popular and he will become even more lijed and justifiably so
The fossil fuel companies need to be taken to court just like the tobacco companies and sued for the deliberate destruction of our planet that they have made hundreds of billions from.
In just a few years our children and grandchildren will ask why we did nothing to stop this asvtheir world burns around them. The corrupt politicians and media hacks who have been bought and paid for will be rightly reviled while the climate activists some of whom are today in prison will be seen as heros. But too late.
Massive windfall taxes on the global petrol /gas corporations need to be levied now and their bosses and enablers end up in court
The Burnham bounce is eclipsing the Green surge – and Zack Polanski’s radical hope is being tested
31 Jul 2026 08:59
It is true that Burnham has stolen a march on everyone, political and media to date and good luck to him undermining Reform, Tories, the Mail, Telegraph and Murdoch.
But he needs to start making his talk of unity and a progressive alliance real if he is to succeed. The Greens have more thought out radical redistributive policies than Labour, whose MPs and machinery are still neo- liberal and compromising to their core.
Polanski has made errors and needs a minder but their position as a radical red green alliance is still powerful and Burnham needs their and other progressives active help in building an anti neo liberal coalition.
Without real change – for renters, for the NHS, for de-privatisation, for fair taxation with wealth taxes and windfall taxes on fossil fuel, banking and polluting corporates – the public will again turn against him.
Instead of listening to the blue labour whisperers and worse the lobbies of money and the established order he needs
Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?
Infant Ino and T Rump 2 cheeks of the same arse who both need a spanking
It is very uplifting to see the next generation of youth prepared to take on the nationalism, corruption and brutality of fascistic states and starting to win.
Of course the real success is to take it to the next level and not only throw out the old kleptocrats and mafiosi but learn from the defeat of the Arab Spring and build a mass democratic progressive movement able to take and keep power.
If you want an example of successful transformation just look at Uruguay.
Our rulers and their media don’t want people to see its possible to build a better world and kick out the old rotten establishment
Forward with the cockroaches
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