‘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…
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‘To learn from the flag debate we have to understand values’
Recent events in Birmingham illustrate the political trap that disputes over flags can create for Labour councils. The…
‘Give workers the security they deserve’
Labour’s manifesto pledged to ban exploitative zero-hour contracts and improve security for working people. The government passed new…
‘Why risk the ‘Burnham bounce’ on the oil and gas industry?’
As the fifth heatwave of the summer hits the UK and wildfires have broken out across the country…
‘Everyone or no one: what Burnham must understand about minority Britain’
In the wake of thousands of people crossing from Morocco into Ceuta, Burnham made his first major intervention…
‘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. The…
‘Heathrow expansion: flying in the face of reason’
Exhausted after months of constituency work, casework and ushering in a new Prime Minister, MPs are now on…
‘End-of-life care and choice are not in opposition to each other’
As GPs and as parliamentarians, we know firsthand that too many people struggle to access the health, care…
‘Andy Burnham is right to put care before assisted suicide’
On a recent visit to an elderly care home in Golders Green, Andy Burnham made an important observation…
‘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,…
