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Richard Watts

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Whitehall won’t be ready. But councils can’t wait to deliver Labour’s radical manifesto

Nowhere is Labour’s pledge to end austerity and pursue radical and transformative policies welcomed more enthusiastically than in…
Richard Watts
7th August, 2018, 9:31 am
Comment

Cable’s Royal Mail sale was crony capitalism at its worst – now we need a windfall tax to get our money back

We all know the gut-wrenching feeling when you get ripped-off. Whether it’s getting a new coat and then…
Richard Watts
18th September, 2017, 1:00 pm
Comment

This ideological plan for more academies is as bad as Lansley’s NHS reforms

It is astonishing that, at a time of major cuts to school budgets, the Government would think it…
Richard Watts
16th March, 2016, 5:00 pm
Comment

Has a Labour council banned pork in schools? Er, no

You may have seen the utterly nonsense story doing the rounds today that Islington Council has banned pork…
Richard Watts
12th February, 2015, 6:32 pm
Comment

Whitehall needs to butt out if we’re going to really change Britain for the better

I wrote recently about how councils have largely coped well with massive cuts from the Tory-led Government, but…
Richard Watts
21st January, 2015, 3:10 pm
Comment

Councils are on a cliff edge: we can’t carry on like this

Over the next few weeks, local authorities across the country will be announcing their budgets for the coming…
Richard Watts
8th January, 2015, 2:08 pm
Comment

The policies are great, but what about the money?

After four years of massive cuts, 2015 is the year when council finances will start to fall off…
Richard Watts
26th July, 2014, 10:30 am
Comment

Tackling rip-off cash machines

As if being in poverty wasn’t bad enough, being charged for being in poverty adds insult to injury. …
Richard Watts
5th April, 2014, 8:30 am
Comment

Five to seven is not enough. We need free school meals for pupils of all ages

Credit where it’s due; this afternoon’s announcement that the Government is rolling out Free School Meals to all…
Richard Watts
17th September, 2013, 5:30 pm
Comment

What I saw on April 15th, 1989

15 April 1989.  As a 14 year old boy I witnessed, from the safety of another stand, 96…
Richard Watts
12th September, 2012, 3:23 pm
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