Mesothelioma victims deserve more than partial justice
Mesothelioma is a terrible disease. A rare form of cancer, it affects the lining of the chest wall…
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Why doesn’t my Tory opponent have the guts to debate me?
As Labour’s parliamentary candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock, last week I challenged the current MP Stephen…
A “hard lesson” for George Osborne
In 2011 George Osborne proclaimed that “We have already asked the British people for what is needed, and…
After the water recedes – a long-term approach to flood risk
Amongst its beauty nature has a devastating ability to prove its dominance over human activity. No-one should doubt…
Go big or go home
It could be a lingering fragment of festive goodwill – or maybe I’m just going soft – but…
It’s time today’s Tory ministers apologised for the sins of their fathers
Yesterday cabinet papers from 1984 revealed that Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government did have a secret hit list of…
How Thatcher lied to the country during the Miners’ Strike
After thirty years of collecting dust, the declassification of secret government papers has finally exposed Margaret Thatcher’s and…
The Lib Dems’ pro-European stance is madness. And genius
And, so, into the Valley of Death marched Nick Clegg. The decision by the Lib Dem leader to…
London is becoming a Tale of Two Cities
It was a quiet ceremony, but a significant one. As the clocks struck midnight in New York yesterday,…
60,000 households with carers are being hit by the Bedroom Tax
Today’s reports of an astonishing 60,000 households with carers being hit by the Bedroom Tax are another damaging…
