‘Kicking foreign nationals out of their council homes is illiberal, immoral and financially incoherent’
It’s time for the Tories to go back to come up with some ideas to tackle the housing crisis they created, rather than half-baked policies.
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‘The Greens’ performative weekly litter picks let council failures go unchallenged’
Councillors’ engagement in community clean-ups are valuable, but they should not become a substitute for holding councils to account and policy interventions.
Farage is a whiny winner – and that’s not attractive to voters
Nigel Farage underperfomed polls and a (space)man with a bin on his head got a quarter of the votes. Now watch him complain and complain.
‘To learn from the flag debate we have to understand values’
Labour councils cannot cede English identity to the far-right but nor can they ignore intimidation or allow provocation.
‘Give workers the security they deserve’
The government has ato find a trade-off between removing zero hour contracts to give workers stable incomes and avoiding raising costs on businesses?
‘Labour’s workplace AI rules need a worker challenge right’
The choice is not between innovation and workers’ rights, but between innovation that earns consent and automation imposed with no built in challenge.
The politics of starting with the problem
Starting by listening to the problem is the best way a politician can connect with people – and it is what makes Burnham a good leader...
‘Why risk the ‘Burnham bounce’ on the oil and gas industry?’
When the economics of new North Sea drilling is so poor, and the climate science is clear, why would Burnham bother?
Stella Tsantekidou column: ‘If I were a tech bro, I would be backing Andy’
One morning Satan slid into my LinkedIn DMs. Using a male human name and concealing his reptilian form behind the screen, he said I could get paid hundreds of pounds per hour to train AI to do my job. “Not today, “James"”, I replied, typing…
‘Everyone or no one: what Burnham must understand about minority Britain’
When rhetoric hardens, it doesn't stay confined to asylum policy. It legitimises the 'us vs them' framing that gets turned on Britain's minorities.
‘A renaissance of our high streets is in reach’
The condition of Britain’s High Streets has become a stark symbol of economic decline and state failure. Labour are changing that.
Crisis? Which crisis?
The crisis in our prisons system is the headline this week. But the state of our state is going to continue to cause problems for the PM.