‘On social housing, we are in danger of pulling up the ladder’
The collapse of affordability and supply of suitable housing not only causes misery to those left out, but…
Grassroots voices
‘Why I joined Labour: my first steps into politics’
A few days ago, I made a decision I had thought about for a very long time. I…
‘Powering the green transition without losing public consent’
A core mission of the UK Labour Government is to accelerate the shift towards renewable energy. This will…
‘Kicking foreign nationals out of their council homes is illiberal, immoral and financially incoherent’
With weary predictability, the news drops of the Conservative Party’s latest attempt to outcompete Reform, on the questionable…
‘The Greens’ performative weekly litter picks let council failures go unchallenged’
Most people want clean streets and parks, and they recognise that maintaining public spaces is a vital public…
‘Beyond the culture wars: Labour in government must be confident enough to hold complexity’
Most people are not sitting over their cornflakes, itching for a fight about pronouns, statues, immigration, race, sex,…
‘Andy Burnham is making Labour “think big” again’
This week, the Prime Minister stood up and did something incredibly brave; something refreshing, I may add. In…
‘Debate and disagreement and are nothing to be feared’
Anas Sarwar has resigned as Scottish Labour leader. Shortly he will be appointed to the House of Lords…
‘HMOs are a state-financed cash machine for investors’
Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City tells the story of…
‘The Burnham bounce and beyond’
So often did the Tories replace prime ministers that if a revolving door had been fitted to No.10,…
