When I was a little boy my family always went on holiday to the same place – the Scottish Isle of Jura. It was beautiful but bleak and always cold. One year, I think it was 1949, whilst I was exploring the island I came across an old dilapidated farmhouse. At first I thought it
Category: Kevin Marx
Marx on Monday: Vara
As a young man I never trusted the police. I thought they were thoroughly dishonest, institutionally racist, Blair Peach murderers. But, as I’ve got older and wiser, I’ve come to realise that they are, to a man, honest and reliable. That’s why I, along with any other right thinking Daily Mail reader, am so annoyed
Marx on Monday: Tristram Hunt
As a journalist I’ve always believed it is important to write articles which are balanced and reflect everyone’s point of view. I always thought I had done this until an incident last week where I was practically threatened with violence by an aggrieved reader. Last Friday I was expecting Ed Milliband and Ed Balls over
Marx on Monday: Education Reform
When Tony Blair was asked what his three main priorities were for government he famously replied, education, education and education. It was a turning point for working class people in Britain. When I was a young lad growing up in the 1970’s there were about 200,000 people at University in the UK, but Tony’s vision
Marx on Monday: Legal Aid Cuts
If there is one thing that makes me sick to my stomach it is the constant bleating we hear from “Fat Cat” Barristers about the wholly justified impending government cuts on legal aid spending. Don’t these lazy, rich and privileged people realise that in this difficult financial climate we all have to tighten our belts?
Marx on Monday: IPCC
Last week when parts of the IPCC’s much heralded “Climate Change Report” were leaked to the press I, as much as any liberal, found myself despairing at some of its findings. No global warming for 16 years; record levels of sea ice; so many polar bears that the UN was proposing a humane cull to
Marx on Monday: Regime Change
As a liberal I am, as a matter of principle, totally opposed to war. There is, however, one exception to this rule. I am totally in favour of intervening, with extreme violence, in the affairs of any country where I believe, often on flimsy or non-existent evidence, that a red line has been crossed. What
Marx on Monday: If you’re against wind farms you are a Fascist!
Let’s face it – we live in a country full of idiots. It is no mean feat, therefore, that UKIP reject James Delingpole, thanks to his article on wind farms in this publication on Friday, has firmly established himself as the biggest idiot of them all. In his article (and I use the word “article”
Marx on Monday: Gibraltar
I was in Malaga last week playing golf and decided to drive south to visit one of Britain’s last colonial outposts – the great rock of Gibraltar. Things did not go as smoothly as planned, however, and I found myself stuck in a six hour traffic jam whilst waiting to cross the frontier. Tempers were
Marx on Monday: Bedroom Tax!
For a long time it has been apparent that the Tory/Liberal coalition is nothing short of fascist but if anybody still needed persuading that our current government are more right wing than Hitler then I have just two words for them – “bedroom tax”. This piece of legislation is undeniably more iniquitous than the
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