The European Union started in 1951 to prevent more wars. The European Coal and Steel Community tied industries together and made a common market amongst members, “to make another war was not only unthinkable but materially impossible.” [Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, 1950] Britain has maintained its own odd isolation, but most EU countries have… Continue reading Any talk of Greece leaving the EU is vindictive and short sighted idiocy

Labour’s National Policy Forum elections are due soon. That’s good, we need to be getting on with policy reformulation, so we can offer a real alternative to government by and for the rich. But if all we do is start the same process again, we will lose again and let down the British people again.… Continue reading Labour’s Policy Process needs to be subject to binding votes

There will be a lot of people in other parts of the UK who are very cross with Scotland this morning, and confused that in the independence referendum just months ago they decided to stay in the UK, then they send almost exclusively SNP MPs to Westminster. It is wrong to be cross with Scotland… Continue reading Don’t blame Scotland for the General Election, blame Labour’s arrogant leadership

There are a number of ways to access sites blocked by your ISP for whatever reason, but a “tunnel” connecting you directly to the site that your ISP cannot observe, by a Virtual Private Network (VPN) looks a more secure option than using a proxy. Hola is the most straightforward Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution… Continue reading Secure web browsing using Hola VPN

If you think Terminator was a flight of fancy, think again. It is the future – we have almost certainly doomed ourselves. We keep striving to develop smarter computers to do more things to make our lives better or to make more money. The point of Artificial Intelligence is that it allows computers to learn.… Continue reading Humanity Doomed by Artificial Intelligence?

Answers to blatantly leading questions in a Co-op Group survey earlier this year, designed to justify a more “commercial” business model, still needed to be twisted to present the impression the profiteers were after. The survey should be titled, “You Spoke and We Had Already Decided”: http://tinyurl.com/pfhqs5z Trying to pander to the notion that people… Continue reading Co-op Carpet Baggers are back!

I hope my comrades on the Left do not argue Britain should not act against IS. IS is clearly a danger to us, here, and it is morally right to tackle them anyway. If you don’t think so, you haven’t been paying attention! Ultra Lefties who would rather use British involvement as an opportunity for… Continue reading Socialists shouldn’t shy away from dealing with IS