By Dave Savage We do not have a presidential electoral system in Britain, of course, because the head of state is whoever happens to be the monarch. But that hasn't stopped the mainstream media doing their best to turn it into a US-style campaign, restricting content to discussion of right-wing talking points and staged interactions … Continue reading Why Michael Lavalette Should Be Preston’s Next MP
The most recent official commemorations of the Normandy landings occurred last week in France. For the first time Russia (as the successor state to the USSR) was not invited. Indeed, discredited and unpopular US and European politicians exploited the occasion to promote their own belligerent geo-political agendas. I found this aspect of the events distasteful, … Continue reading Why D-Day Wasn’t a Precondition for Victory in the Second World War
'The Most Moral Army in the World' A poem by Alan Dent We kill and we maim, shoot kids in their beds bury corpses in pits, sometimes slice off their heads the sick we love bombing, the old we beat sore it’s our business, our pleasure, the fine stuff of war if we mangle your … Continue reading The Most Moral Army In The World
A map of southern Russia and the Black Sea, scene of the Crimean War of 1853-56, Britain's last formal war with Russia. Rishi Sunak is one of the most despised Prime Ministers in British history, indeed even a majority of Tories now regularly express their contempt for him in polling. He has no personal electoral … Continue reading Bluff, Bluster & Bulls**t: Sunak’s Plan for a UK War Economy to Take on Russia
Alan Dent is a Preston author, poet and activist. He has written for Sodalis and Preston Red Thread on a variety of issues, including Palestine. gaza-2023-24-alan-dentDownload
What might have been a run-of-the-mill by-election to the House of Commons has provoked a remarkable eruption of bile, hatred and intolerance from the British Establishment and its legacy media cheer-leaders. Such minor events are normally largely ignored by all but the small minority who follow these things closely. But the fact that George Galloway … Continue reading Galloway’s Latest Triumph Shames Starmer’s Labour
By Alan Dent John Stuart Mill in 1859 penned an occasional essay still savoured like fine wine by the super-rich of Europe, America the “West” because it tells them, whatever they do, they are always best; the English, clever John observed, made to rule by god were right to kill barbarians it was proven, quod … Continue reading Angelic Nations
Should I live a long life, I hope and pray I never forget the dead babies of the Gaza Genocide. The many hundreds - thousands - of murdered babies. It is a matter of deep shame to me that in 2023 and 2024 my own party, the Labour Party, cheered on the murderous onslaught against … Continue reading The Gaza Genocide & Starmer’s Deepest Betrayal Yet
By Alan Dent This is what evil looks like Netanyahu in a dark suit a pressed white shirt a smart blue tie neatly knotted his grey hair sharply parted like a boy’s after mother’s attention his fingers tapping the table as he sits with his cabinet discussing how to avoid slaughtering women and children by … Continue reading Next Time
1789 Schraembl-Niebuhr Map of Yemen, Arabia. The bombing of Yemen is illegal and prohibited by the UN Charter. As a signatory, the UK government is obliged to comply with the UN Charter not contradict it. Moreover, American military analysts such as Douglas McGregor, Larry Wilkerson and Scott Ritter have all said this bombing is militarily futile. … Continue reading Strategically Inept – the Immoral and Illegal UK-US Bombing of Yemen
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