Ken Ferguson

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

Menaced by multi-headed crisis – flight or fight?

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Amidst the dizzying series of dramatic developments in the Brexit saga, creating a historic crisis in UK politics, it needs to be understood that it is also located in a much wider ...

With a world in flames, working class action for change essential

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Both literally and metaphorically, the world is in flames, with fires largely lit by human greed, inspired by the market madness of neoliberalism. Real conflagrations in the ...

Illusion and reality in the world of Boris Johnson

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Nearly a month into the reign of the new Tory leader, the torrent of right wing media praise for Boris Johnson is unabated. Even the reduction of the Tory/DUP commons majority to ...

Surreal Euro polls put crisis of the British state in the spotlight

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Historically a bye word for stability, statecraft and order, the British state is now facing political and constitutional disarray on a unimagined scale. Already gridlocked ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...

All that’s solid melts in air amidst Brexit crisis

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Even the most hardened journalists, activists and politicians now stand on the edge of Brexit bafflement as things unthinkable one day enter the mainstream the next. Moving at ...

Neither tragedy nor farce but action for real change can save the day

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · If Marx was right when he wrote the famous dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy than as farce you have to wonder where on that scale lies the crisis wracked UK now? ...

Brexit-fuelled fantasies of Empire 2.0 makes indy case

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · In what now seems like a universe far, far away, during the 2016 EU referendum, the Voice took a reluctant Remain position and warned that the politics of Brexit would be dominated ...

The Tories made this Brexit crisis: we refuse to pay for it

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the smoke of the Brexit battle and May’s defeat with the rejection of her EU deal by a stunning 230 votes, the official media endorsed hand wringing about the process is ...