Comment How zoos epitomise the government’s chaotic approach to Covid You wouldn’t normally consider zoos to be at the heart of political debate but their treatment epitomises the… Justin Madders 15th June, 2020, 4:36 pm
Comment We need a fully-resourced plan for mass testing and contact tracing More than two months after the government said it was no longer necessary to identify every new case… Justin Madders 19th May, 2020, 5:44 pm
Comment Coronavirus is shining a spotlight on the perils of insecure work The perils of the gig economy and the increasing prevalence of insecure work have been intermittently on the… Justin Madders 6th March, 2020, 11:29 am
Comment These new Tory MPs are making the right noises, but they won’t deliver New statistics make the recent general election result difficult to comprehend. They show that 78% of people in… Justin Madders 30th January, 2020, 1:05 pm
Comment Long-term questions for Labour leadership candidates to answer As we enter a new decade and deal with the immediate turmoil of our catastrophic defeat and the… Justin Madders 6th January, 2020, 7:58 am
Comment As a Leave seat MP, here’s my view on what Labour should learn Like many members, I have been in a fog of disappointment for the last few days. Friends and… Justin Madders 17th December, 2019, 4:48 pm
Comment Why we need a shadow minister for the North Last month, I wrote about a new campaign group set up by Labour MPs called “Labour for the… Justin Madders 23rd July, 2019, 8:48 am
Comment Sanctions against bullying MPs can no longer amount to a ‘quiet word’ MPs will debate a report today that concludes their staff are subject to an “unacceptable risk of bullying… Justin Madders 17th July, 2019, 8:47 am
Comment Why I’m pushing for Labour to adopt an independent complaints process Politicians have always, more or less, policed their own conduct. But that has started to change in recent… Justin Madders 8th July, 2019, 7:30 am
Comment Labour for the North: Why we’ve set up a new group for Northern Labour MPs The Institute for Public Policy Research for the north of England recently published its review of the Northern… Justin Madders 1st July, 2019, 1:23 pm