Bitcoin: “lying, cheating and stealing”

Michael Roberts writes in his blog: Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison.  He ran the highly successful FTX bitcoin hedge fund that supposedly made millions for his clients.  But Friedman was exposed and convicted of stealing $8 billion from his FTX customers. He was found to have siphoned billions in …

Daniel Morgan killing: record compensation from the Met – but will the truth ever be known?

Above: Channel 4 report Jun 15, 2021 following a finding of "institutional corruption" against the Met Scotland Yard is paying out £2million after admitting that the investigation into the unsolved murder of a Daniel Morgan more than 35 years ago was not just incompetent, but corrupt. The Morgan family thus join a list of grieving …

Latest Stephen Lawrence revelation and the bent coppers

Stephen Lawrence Thanks to a BBC investigation (ie: most definitely not thanks to the police), a sixth suspect in the April 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence has been named as Matthew White, who died in 2021. Of the five originally named only two, Gary Dobson and David Norris, were finally convicted (in 2012). Luke Knight and brothers …

Johnson – Big Dog dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjXDdUxZ9c Dave Kellaway of Anti*Capitalist Resistance, writing on 6 July (ie a day before Johnson finally announced that he will go - albeit not until autumn), discusses what is happening in the Tory party, and how socialists inside and outside the Labour party should respond: What a spectacle! There is a meme on social media of …

Grenfell five years on: never forget, never forgive

The fire began just before 1am on Wednesday 14 June 2017, when a fridge-freezer caught fire on the fourth floor of the 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington, West London. Today (14 June) is exactly five years on from the Grenfell tragedy and there are still at least 9,793 tower blocks in England that …

After Paterson, the “£3 million club” and yet more Tory corruption

Above: Brexiteer chums Owen Paterson and Boris Johnson in 2019 Following Johnson's bungled attempt to let his Brexiteer chum Paterson off the hook and to, yet again, undermine the norms of bourgeois democracy, yet more revelations of Johnsonian corruption has come to light. It is being widely reported that Tory MP's showing any reluctance to …

Johnson and Paterson: corruption in plain sight

The corrupt duo: photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian The Guardian reports: Boris Johnson tore up the independent system for combating sleaze in parliament on Wednesday as he threw the government’s weight behind protecting a Conservative MP who was found to have repeatedly breached lobbying rules. The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, accused the prime minister of …

The Daniel Morgan murder and the Murdoch connection

Court artist’s Elizabeth Cook’s impression of (left to right) Jonathan Rees, Glen Vian, Sidney Fillery, Gary Vian and James Cook. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA The inquiry into the 1987 killing of private detective Daniel Morgan has finally published its report, despite home secretary Priti Patel's attempts to delay and interfere with it. Last month Patel astonished …

Galloway: the despicable record of a Red-Brown poseur

Above: George Galloway and friend (picture: Twitter/@VirendraSharma) Apparently undaunted by his recent humiliation in Scotland, the loathsome Red-Brown poseur George Galloway, friend of dictators everywhere, is standing in Batley and Spen, and making no secret of his objective: to help ensure a Tory victory. In an enthusiastic pro-Galloway puff-piece, today's Sunday Times reports: Galloway, who …

McCluskey and Beckett have misused Unite members’ money – to the tune of several million pounds

Len McCluskey, and Howard Beckett, Unite's head of 'Legal' matters. Sadly, Nick Cohen's article in today's Observer is entirely accurate; in particular, this: Labour MP Neil Coyle alleged to the parliamentary commissioner for standards and the certification officer, who regulates trade unions, that Unite was using members’ money to subsidise a string of legal cases. The media …