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Yesterday, UNISON conference got a shock as 30 people burst in through the back doors wearing 1970’s wigs, disco glasses, and danced their way to the front of the hall. Flashmobbing may seem odd at a union conference, but this ‘mob’ had a…
Listen to a member of the current Government speak about incentives to work and you'll notice that one issue is conspicuous by its absence: Pay. Nothing captures the upside-down world of Austerity Britain better than Ian Duncan Smith…
As Mark reported earlier this week, Brent Central MP Sarah Teather voted against equal marriage on Monday, despite having written several times about her support for the policy, and despite a history of vocal claims to support LGBT equality…
Jon Cruddas's speech last night - especially the part about the remoteness of the Labour Party - has got Sandwell Labour Councillor Bob Piper thinking about his local party which has been placed in "special measures' for a number of years…
Last night, with significant support from Labour MPs, Parliament took the first steps to achieve marriage equality. Same sex relationships will be recognised in law on an equitable basis to others. Trans people will not have marriages…
As today is Holocaust Memorial Day, I've decided to re-post this piece from last year, reflecting on a trip I made to Auschwitz with the Holocaust Educational Trust. --------------- Last November I took a trip with two hundred school kids…
.....Is what colleagues have said after my performance in the recent Police and Crime Commissioner elections. I stood as the Labour Party candidate in Suffolk, a largely safe Conservative county with 7 Conservative MP’s. Out of 4…
One Nation – Our nation, the nation this Labour generation seeks to represent and to serve, is a complex and varied place, stretching from coast to inner city, from wooded glade to urban park, from ports and estuaries to high-rise flats and…
First the NHS, now our education system. James O’Shaughnessy, the freshly-departed Head of Policy at No 10, who himself is starting up an education business, last week published a report for Policy Exchange arguing private companies should…
Thanks to one of the best measures in the Refounding Labour changes every CLP has been given a free pass for their delegate, and so several CLPs have had the financial barrier to attendance lifted. Therefore there will be more conference…
On a sunny August day in the middle of ‘recess’, angry local residents in Croydon stood up for their community and demanded change. Movement for Change has been working with members of Waddon Labour party for the past few months to identify…
Just over a month ago, the DWP finally decided that they'd made a mistake and I DID qualify for DLA after all. It had been 18 months since my original claim. It took 9 months to reject it initially, then a month or two for them to…
