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The reality with any diaspora is that they tend to become more identified with their country of origin when they emigrate. The Irish diaspora in England are a case in point - they tend to identify more with Irish nationalism, (drinking in Irish pubs), attending Irish heritage and cultural...

Yea - a goal today - hopefully it is the start of good things for him. He probably couldn't be in a better spot at the moment.

Burnley and Sheff Utd were miles ahead of every other club in the Championship last season. WBA, Watford and Norwich seriously f*cked-up their seasons. Luton were promoted by pure chance - before Christmas they were bottom half having won only 2 of the 11 home games - then at the end of January...

A good win in what could have been a bit of a banana skin fixture - and my boy Evan got a goal to cap it all off.

Again - read what I wrote - I didn't 'claim tradesmen are all employees' - I said the 'vast majority work as employees'. It is difficult to get accurate statistics on this because of the nature of the work of tradesmen. However estimates of the number of tradesmen who are waged employees range...

1. With all due respect - I have been doing this politics stuff for more than 40 years - and while economics is not my forte, I do understand how government finance works. I was making a very basic point about the nature of capitalist society and the function of government and parliamentary...

Not what I wrote - the vast majority of tradesmen work as waged employees - some are forced to work on bogus self-employed contracts. A small number of tradesmen run small businesses - because of their relationship to the economic forces of production they would be classed as middle-class. This...

In fact Marx predicted exactly how the global economy would develop including globalisation - his analysis of the nature of the capitalist economic system has been pretty much spot-on.

As an important aside - demonstrating the problems for Starmer's Blairite party and the potential of a left-wing movement. Starmer's henchmen recently dumped the Labour Mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority - Jamie Driscoll. Driscoll was suspended from LP membership because he attended...

I don't make the distinction - sociologists did that many years ago Yes - someone earning £200K can be working class and a shopkeeper earning £40 can be middle class - it is not the amount you earn -it is the ownership of the means of production. But - importantly - there are very few workers...

Chelsea is turning into one of the least attractive jobs in football at the moment

Great to see so many Irish kids involved -

He is saying all the right things - bloom is going to face one hell of a job to hang on to him for as long as possible

Again - your social class is determined by your relationship to the economy - do you work for a wage or salary - if yes then you are working class - if you run your own business then you are middle class - and if you are pals with Sunak then you are part of the rich elite. A doctor in the NHS...

you'll find them in the Tory party

Whether individual people consider themselves part of the working class is not relevant (I remember talking to a woman who was a cleaner on minimum wage many years ago and she said 'middle-class people like us....' I was a postman at the time. Social class is determined by the relationship of...

And where has this printed money being going - oh yea - into the banks who wrecked the economy 15 years ago. And what are they doing with this money? - they are using it to gamble on the stock market in shorts futures and derivatives - creating financial bubbles and causing more problems (like...

1. All the opinion polls on policies indicated that the policies put forward by Corbyn were popular with a majority of the electorate - the election was decided on the issue of completing Brexit (and Starmer purposely scuttled the LP on that issue) 2. Of course things have to be paid for - that...

Every wing of sociology defines the middle class as those who own in small businesses, work as professionals or as farmers (and these days many professionals cannot be considered middle-class because of how their wages have been slashed (e.g. teacher and doctors). The problem with your...

Briighton boss Roberto De Zerbi has spoken about midfielder Moises Caicedo, who is being chased by Liverpool and Chelsea: "I have already forgotten about Moises. I'm really proud of the players we have in the squad. We want to keep improving. The credit goes to the club. Bigger clubs can buy our...