Tory cuts, not just Covid, led to the courts backlog now denying people justice
An eminent criminal solicitor recently tweeted a story of a client, born in 2001, who had allegedly committed…
Jake Richards
Labour must accept the role played by personal responsibility in Covid failures
An intensive care doctor at the UCL hospital in central London, commenting on the rising infection rate, recently…
Why the new ‘independent review’ of the Human Rights Act is worrying
The Conservative government launched an ‘independent review of the Human Rights Act’ this week. After years of huffing and…
The government is failing victims of both the Windrush scandal and Grenfell fire
Harold Wilson famously said: “A week is a long time in politics.” This rings true now more than…
Labour is rebuilding trust with our veterans and armed forces personnel
Despite the ongoing challenges of a global pandemic, this week the Labour Party has remembered those who faced…
Labour should build a transformational devolution agenda – and not stop there
Law professor Sionaidh Douglass-Scott recently said that “constitution-building is a bit like dentistry: there’s never a good time…
For Boris Johnson, ‘levelling up’ is merely a slogan in search of a policy
Boris Johnson’s priority as Prime Minister, beyond his desire to ‘get Brexit done’, is his ‘levelling up agenda’.…
Government policy is set to cause a homelessness crisis over winter
As the second wave of this pandemic approaches, the government’s commitment to protecting the most vulnerable continues to…
Labour can once more be the party of law and order
“We need to come down hard on crime. That means coming down hard on criminals.” These were the…
Tory cronyism in government procurement: incompetence or wilful malpractice?
We’ve recently seen scandals develop around government procurement during the pandemic. As journalists, campaigners and lawyers begin to…
