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I spent a day at Southampton docks last week, chatting with our shop stewards and members about the way the port could change in the event of a no deal Brexit. As a national officer, I used to represent dock workers across the UK and I know…
“In the context of a 100-year life, continuous training and retaining will become more important. Older people need to be equipped and supported to respond to a changing labour market.” Take a moment to think about that. What image does it…
It took the Irish famine to finally force Conservative Prime Minister Robert Peel to repeal the Corn Laws of the 1800s, and now we have a Tory government trying similar 19th-century solutions to 21st-century problems. The Corn Laws imposed…
As the Tories continue to wilfully ignore the devastation their policies are wreaking on our society and people’s lives, there was perhaps no choice for them but to downplay the spring statement. A full budget, as in Autumn, would again…
"Get stuffed". That was the response of Boris Johnson, our present foreign secretary, when quizzed as London mayor about his fire safety cuts. In just two words, Johnson embodied the hideous disdain and contempt the Conservatives have for…
As the battery of poor economic indicators grows it becomes increasingly clear – if there was ever any doubt – that this Government has no adequate plan to deal with the scale of economic shocks that is likely to unfold in the wake of…
This time last year Sports Direct shares were trading at over £8 each as the retailer’s board prepared for the company’s annual general meeting at its Shirebrook HQ in Derbyshire. The board no doubt thought it could shrug off a Unite demo…
Those Gods who famously wish to destroy by first making mad have certainly been working overtime within the Parliamentary Labour Party lately. We have open defiance of the elected leader, talks of coups and now, after elections to hitherto…
There wasn’t a political earthquake in Scotland after all with a bigger majority for the no vote against independence than was being predicted, but, anyone who thinks it can be business as normal after the huge turnout is very much…
John Healey MP recently argued the case for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on LabourList, saying that the left should lead the fight for a fair deal. This was in part a response to the unanimous vote at TUC…
What do Southend, Ramsgate, Grimsby and Blackpool have in common? Score a point if you say that they are all on the coast but actually real answer is that they're all fed up to the back teeth of austerity. Just days before the government's…
Cast your minds back to the pre-coalition days of 2010, when five Liberal Democrat MPs signed an early day motion expressing reservations about a paper written by Peter Hain entitled, ‘In Work, Better off: next steps to full employment.’…
