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The new pamphlet from the Changing Work Centre - a joint Community/Fabian Society venture - has been put together with some impressively heavyweight labour movement support as it seeks to set out a blueprint for what it terms a…
Labour-led local authorities, mostly in the poorest parts of the UK, house 20 times more asylum seekers than Conservative ones. But they get not a penny more support for doing so and once they have volunteered to help, there is “ very…
I rather think that our prime minister is stumped on Europe. She has announced the main plank in her Brexit programme – a Great Repeal Bill that will lift-and-shift all EU based legalisation into UK law at the instant we formally leave the…
There are none. This is the omnishambles of all omnishambles, as Malcolm Tucker would say. The Brexit result had my teenage daughter wailing “They’ve F*cked my Future” over her breakfast, and my so is scurrying around trying to establish…
The Human Rights dimension of the campaign against the Trade Union Bill received a fillip this week from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In response to a TUC submission, they: Expressed serious concerns the 40 per cent…
Jon Trickett’s calls for People’s Assemblies to reinvent politics is characteristic of the new and more open dynamic of Jeremy Corbyn’s still embryonic leadership. Certainly Jon’s analysis is right – low voter turnout, especially amongst…
It may be a strange and even counter-intuitive thought, but could major benefices of Jeremy Corbyn's win be the Lib Dems? Certainly it is arguable that all the portents are present to repeat the 1980s split of the “Gang of Four” to form the…
Like everyone who has a vote, I’ve been deluged by emails and letters. No phone calls so far, thank goodness. I’ve even had letters to “The Sapper Family” which is presumptive in the extreme when the sender cannot possibly know the…
The reactionary howls that greeted Rachel Reeves' maternity leave plans remind us that, in some quarters, although we have come a long way, there is still just as far to go on when it comes to recognising that (1) women have babies and (2)…
