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It’s hardly surprising that for the first time since the slum clearances in the 1950s and 1960s, there is palpable public anger at the state we’re in. Housing is back as a major political issue. After all, there are 250,000 people living…
"When you’ve got nothing you’ve got nothing to lose", sang Bob Dylan. Unfortunately that’s not true. When you’ve got nothing you can still keep on falling through the cracks. This is what’s happening with the roll-out of universal credit…
"It’s a wicked and cynical business offering superficially simple solutions to complex challenges,” Philip Hammond told the Conservative party conference yesterday. He meant it as a dig at Labour, but he could have been talking about…
“I hear what you’re saying, but don’t cut your nose off to spite your face,” I found myself repeating again and again during the Brexit referendum campaign. Like most Labour campaigners, I trudged the streets and knocked on doors pleading…
There never used to be a problem with the free movement of people until it became the mass free movement of people. It’s not the principle that people should be able to travel and work in other EU member states that’s wrong - it’s that the…
They say that the light is darkest just before the dawn. The families, friends and supporters of those unlawfully killed at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground on 15 April 1989, spent nearly three decades in the darkness. Year after…
As a lifelong trade unionist and anti-fascist, the right to protest is one that I hold very dear. Even when those marching are doing so in a cause with which I don’t agree, I respect the principle of free speech and peaceful protest. But…
If some commentators are to be believed, we are just a few short months away from a referendum of whether we stay in the European Union. The single biggest political decision any of us will have made (at least since the last time we voted…
Every decision I have to make as Mayor of Liverpool is hard these days. Rationing services. Cutting budgets. Making ends meet. Dreaming up new ways of holding on to what we have. It’s the politics of the possible. Of practical solutions…
If there was a box marked “none of the above” it would probably be on course to win the first round of the Labour leadership contest. There is little in terms of content (so far) to get excited about. The process seems to be too long. And…
Dear Harriet, What a dismal week it’s been to be a Labour party member. Every day, we have heard, with growing disbelief, that we need to support the government’s cuts to welfare spending to show we have learned our lesson from the recent…
Out of power in Westminster for five years, Labour’s 73 councils up and down the country are now the main shop window for showing how we put our values into practice. Labour has been delivering the kind of government people want throughout…
