August 2018

“Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela and a very wide world……………..President Maduro has shown the world there is a better way. It’s called socialism. Venezuela is inspirational.”                         Jeremy Corbyn According to The Latin American Herald Tribune, … [Read on]

At some point during the onset of this year’s interminable heatwave, I was invited by a relatively new acquaintance to an impromptu picnic at Hampstead Heath. As a rule, I tend to shy away from large gatherings with people I barely know for fear that the Molotov cocktail of social tedium combined with my own culturally conservative streak will produce … [Read on]