The politics of community
Today we’ve published a collection of essays from Labour PPCs called “Our Labour Our Communities”. They were curated…
Lisa Nandy
The Westminster Bubble is at it again
My favourite story from the Better Together campaign is one I heard about Jim Murphy a few weeks…
Brooks Newmark’s comments aren’t just patronising, they’re an attack on charities
The new Minister for Civil Society may be surprised by the uproar he’s caused by telling charities to…
Young people are political, we need to show them politics is worth their time
Energetic. Ambitious. Optimistic. Passionate. Working with young people for nearly a decade taught me they’re the most likely…
Gaza is a true test of political leadership
We all know that it is far easier to stand up to the weak than the strong. as Ed…
Why did the government break its own rules to fund David Cameron’s vanity projects?
The Big Society has long seemed like a joke to many communities across Britain, but now it has…
“Socialists are not concerned solely with material things”
Labour was built on the voluntary tradition: from the trade unions and grassroots socialist groups that founded our…
We must use days like this to build our communities
St George’s Day is popular in Wigan. Scouts and Brownies take to the streets for an annual St.…
Cameron has presided over an astonishing and avoidable rise in poverty
Working parents are simply not earning enough to escape poverty. That was the recent, damning verdict of the…
No child left behind
Every Child Matters was one of the great success stories of the last Labour government, pushing children up…
