GLASTONBURY was muddy but fantastic and as you read this I’ll be in Dortmund performing at the UZ Pressefest, a wonderful festival organised by Unsere Zeit, the Morning Star’s sister paper in Germany.

But that’s enough about me for this week — here’s my piece on the referendum. I started off as a firm supporter of Exit Left, despairing at Greece’s fate and the EU as the defenders of brutal corporate greed.

But when I saw the openly xenophobic and mendacious campaign being waged by the main Leave organisers I realised that, despite my misgivings, as an internationalist and anti-racist I had to support Remain and that a Leave vote in a country with countless angry communities devastated by years of heartless neglect by politicians of all parties would unleash really dangerous forces.