Liam McQuade

An evening with Greens Organise – the happy, hopey vanguard It is astonishing how two meetings in the same venue for the same ostensible purpose can be very different. A month ago I went along to a local meeting of Your Party which was not unpleasant but no…

Some thoughts on a meeting of Greens Organise.

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The DUP visit Israel to show that Palestinian lives don’t matter Paul Givan is the education minister in the Belfast assembly, a sort of toy parliament which allows his Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin to allocate sectarian patronage to their respec…

The recent trip by the DUP to Israel was about the international right showing its support for the eradication of the Palestinians.

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This piece from The Times on train conductors has aged well.

Zarah Sultana and Michael Heseltine agree Farage is a fascist – they are probably wrong “The bureaucracies that ruled the mass organizations of the working class were able to insulate the masses from an adequate theory of fascism and effective strategy and tactics for the struggle aga…

I’m not convinced that @zarahsultana is right to call Farage a fascist.

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Michael Chessum | Green New Left Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems...

If the Greens really were to replace Labour, this is what the early build-up might look.

Some thoughts for the @lrb.co.uk on the new left gathering around @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the contingent nature of green parties, and why this surge confounds commentators on left and right.

Louis Mountbatten – the royal Jimmy Savile Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up: Chris Moore I had to set this book aside for a couple of days after reading the secon…

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has decided to retain the name of a child rapist in his new designation.

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Aspire Councillors must decide who they represent - Tower Hamlets Green Party We need local representatives committed to their area who will fight 100% for their local residents.

Tower Hamlets Greens on Aspire councillors seeking election in Bangladesh.

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Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets - Tower Hamlets Green Party 1 / 1 One of the star turns at this year’s Reform conference was convicted criminal Lucy Connolly. She was sent to prison for encouraging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. This can ...

Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets
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Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets - Tower Hamlets Green Party 1 / 1 One of the star turns at this year’s Reform conference was convicted criminal Lucy Connolly. She was sent to prison for encouraging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. This can ...

Tower Hamlets Green Party reply to Farage slanders against the borough.

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Greens and grudges Broadly speaking, the general attitude on the British left towards the slightly surprising rise of the Greens has been positive. Everyone’s favourite student Leninist vanguard are open to discussio…

I can sort of understand the sectarian, bureaucratic motives behind the hostility to the Greens, but it is self defeating.

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Could you introduce a Premium Plus subscription which guarantees readers no articles about Holmes other than his obituary?

Soldier F and Unionism school the Kneecap generation In some parts of Belfast local people fly the flag of the British Parachute Regiment, the colonel-in chief of which is Charles Windsor. Given that this state gang murdered eleven civilians in the c…

The DUP reaction to the acquittal of Soldier F is a learning experience for the Kneecap generation.

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A dispatch from the frontline of the Islamic Caliphate of Tower Hamlets Sometimes you can’t help doing things that are stupid, wrong and bad for you, like having a couple of glasses of whiskey after getting back from the pub. Trying to find out a bit more about the new…

UKIP were humiliated in Tower Hamlet but just because it is easy to ridicule them doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.

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Greens and anti-racists – we humiliated UKIP but we still need you at Whitechapel on Saturday - Tower Hamlets Green Party The people of Tower Hamlets have resoundingly humiliated the far right Islamophobes of UKIP. It had become obvious that this ragbag crew of racists and bigots were going to be massively outnumbered by...

A good result in Tower Hamlets.

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Tower Hamlets Green Party is proud to have been part of the coalition of local community and political organisations which have prevented the provocative Islamophobic UKIP demonstration from happening in our borough.
Our unity defeated the far right.
They shall not pass!

Paul Mason’s journey from Trotsky to making stuff up for Starmer (and whoever comes next) Back before sourdough, avocados and frappuccinos were invented it was still possible to buy a flat in one of the less salubrious bits of east London on a Post Office clerical salary. That is how I …

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Paul Mason is likely to be remembered for the most complete political degeneration in the last fifty years of the British radical left.

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All out to stop UKIP Islamophobes in Tower Hamlets! - Tower Hamlets Green Party Tower Hamlets Green Party is calling on all our members and supporters across London to join this Saturday’s demonstration against UKIP’s Islamophobic stunt in Whitechapel.   We will be there with our...

A statement from Tower Hamlets Green Party on UKIP and its planned Islamophobic stunt.

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Louis Mountbatten – the royal Jimmy Savile Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up: Chris Moore I had to set this book aside for a couple of days after reading the secon…

Andrew Windsor is not the first in his family alleged to have sexually abused vulnerable young people.

Chris Moore’s recent book on Mountbatten should have got a lot more attention.

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I was given an excellent education by Christian Brothers and priests but it’s absurd that in the 21st century the Catholic Church still controls schools. Public education should be provided by the state.

The RCP makes nice to the Green Party “What’s behind the Green surge?” asks an article on the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). One wag suggested that their answer might be either Ecotricity’s Dale Vince or NATO’s Jen…

A response to a serious attempt by the RCP to come to terms with the rapid growth of the Green Party.

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A strong statement in support of East London Mosque from Tower Hamlets Green Party.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Today is P. G. Wodehouse’s birthday.

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

Four Corners on the Roman Road, Bethnal Green is showing a small exhibition on Gaza which is well worth catching before it closes on Saturday.

Aspire’s women problem Much of the flak directed at Aspire is straightforwardly Islamophobic. It is a very particular, highly localised Tower Hamlets expression of the collapse of Labour and the Tories as the two main pa…

It is an easy thing to recognise that much of the online comment on Tower Hamlets and Lutfur Rahman is viciously racist and Islamophobic while pointing out that it’s politically wrong to defend events that exclude women. liam-record.com/2025/10/13/a...

Aspire’s women problem Much of the flak directed at Aspire is straightforwardly Islamophobic. It is a very particular, highly localised Tower Hamlets expression of the collapse of Labour and the Tories as the two main pa…

Aspire has an unusual understanding of inclusive sporting events.

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A remarkable mass movement marks the end of the carnage in Gaza It is impossible for a participant to make an accurate estimate of how many people attended today’s demonstration in London in support of the people of Gaza. It definitely felt like it was in the h…

Some thoughts on today’s absolutely massive demonstration against the Gaza genocide.

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Looking forward to seeing ‘Allo Darlin’ tonight.

How bad is that Guinness thing on Netflix? During the Irish Civil War the counter-revolutionary Free State forces, which had been led by Michael Collins and were later commanded by future fascist Richard Mulcahy, tied nine Republican prison…

I hated it more than you.

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