The New Foodie

This blog was meant to be about the recipes of William Cobbett and so it will be but I want to take a short deviation about the way we eat our food now. As long as I live, may I never read another restaurant review. There are two minor problems with them. One is the...

The William Cobbett Cookbook

This blog was meant to be about the recipes of William Cobbett and so it will be but I want to take a short deviation about the way we eat our food now. As long as I live, may I never read another restaurant review. There are two minor problems with them. One is the...

Strikingly Good-Why the Tube strike is a public service

The London Tube strike has unleashed a whole lot of nastiness. And I don’t mean the ‘misery for millions of Londoners'(of whom I’m one) who are deemed  too weedy to undergo 48 of limited public transport. Welcome to the world of class hatred,...

Make your own Job Centre

Here’s an extraordinary story. But it should be much more ordinary. The reasons it isn’t have a lot to do with how we are assuming our society should be organised from the top down, by big (increasingly privatised) organisations, and with a fair degree of...

Looking for a job

A little while ago I joined Unite the Union, community branch.This is a new development, a first for any union I think, and its based on the changing nature of jobs and work. Unions are still mostly workplace based, but if you are moving in and out of jobs,...