I am the general secretary of the Solidarity Union in the UK. I am the Director of the Third Way think-tank. I edit Counter Culture magazine and website. I am a left-leaning Nationalist. I'm anti-authoritarian and support freedom of expression and association. I am not currently a member of any political Party because no single party represents the full range of my views. My focus is to seek to help people with issues in their workplace through my union work and to right injustices through legal and quasi-legal action.
Politics, music, yoga, swimming, reading, writing and travel.
Bowie, Creedence Clearwater Survival, Pretenders, Blondie, Mozart, Hindu Mantras. Very varied.
The Thomas Crowne Affair, Barbarella, Harold and Maude - so many.
The Lord of the Rings, anti-hero fiction like the Flashman books and Stainless Steel Rat. Anything by Ursula Le Guin. Most Dystopian fiction but especially 1984 and Anthem.
Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, The Shield - again so many!
"I was Snow White but I drifted" - Mae West
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it, than vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene Debs (one time Socialist US Presidential candidate).
"I believe that the community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose."
- Judge Learned Hand
"The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done."
- Arthur Balfour, 7 May 1926
"Ana farashatoun ana
Aeshou dawman fe al hana
Airou maa toyour
Ohalik fawka zohour"
- Al Farasha
"Forte est vino. Fortior est rex. Fortiores sunt mulieres; sup om vincit veritas".
"Our rabbis taught … The sword comes into the world, because of justice delayed and justice denied.”
- Mishnah (the oral Torah of the Jewish religion):