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For members of the Labour Party, anti-fascism is an essential component of our political values. We warn against its dangers and we commemorate the victims of fascism. These are just two fundamental responsibilities for our movement. In…
The formative years of my life were spent in Hampstead, in the heart of North London’s Jewish community. I attended seder with my neighbours, went to Limmud with friends and still enjoy too much challah on Fridays. I have never been made to…
This is the full text of the letter sent by Labour backbencher Tulip Siddiq to Jeremy Corbyn today after a key party committee decided against the expulsion of Ken Livingstone over his comments about Hitler and Zionism. Dear Jeremy, I am…
“The eyes of the world are turning to Great Britain. We now have the moral leadership of the world”. That's what Aneurin Bevan proudly told Labour activists not long after the creation of the NHS in 1948. Labour’s greatest Health Secretary…
I woke up this morning hoping that last night’s election result was nothing but a bad dream. Unfortunately, the first image that greeted me was one of George Galloway grinning like a Cheshire cat on my television. Why did Labour lose in…
I was fresh out of university. The job market was flourishing under Labour. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I felt that the world was my oyster. I was hungry for a job in politics and I was determined not to be the last of my friends to…
By Tulip Siddiq / @TulipSiddiq Just days after the new Labour leader Ed Milliband called for an optimistic approach to politics, Sayeeda Warsi sinks to negative mudslinging and the best example of pessimistic politics we could hope for…
By Tulip Siddiq & Debbie Moss The whole point of the Labour party is greater equality, so for women MPs the benchmark should not be other, lagging, parties, but ourselves A great man once said that this was no time for a novice. Well some…
By Tulip Siddiq and Sam Bacon "Oh, they don't care" - a common claim made about young people. Apparently we're all apathetic and disengaged from politics. Not true. A lot of us do care. The disconnect is not of young people from issues or…
By Tulip Siddiq What can we make of the recent disruption in relations between the government and the Muslim Council of Britain? Once feted as the voice of Muslims in Britain, the organisation has been severely rebuked by the government…
By Tulip Siddiq They say all politics is local, but can it be so without a vibrant local press? This week I attended a meeting hosted by the National Union of Journalists in Parliament ominously entitled 'Future of local news under threat.'…
