The history of the Human Rights Act, in conversation with Francesca Klug
Matthew Turner and I were recently joined by Professor Francesca Klug, a renowned human rights academic and member…
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Labour for the North: How Labour can rebuild the ‘Red Wall’ across the North
In the summer of 2019 Justin Madders, Peter Dowd and I formed the Labour for the North group…
Day care centres were a lifeline for my family. We must keep them open
My father arrived in the UK in the 1960s as part of a wave of Bengali immigration into…
What would settle the Scottish debate over our constitutional settlement?
For a referendum that was supposed to resolve long running divisions over independence, the polarising effects of the…
School closures row escalates as anxieties mount over Christmas bubbles
Bumping up London, along with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire, to Tier 3 could not wait until the…
Workers should be helped to prepare for the jobs of tomorrow. Here’s how
At Community, we are proud of our history. When our industries changed over the last century, we stayed…
We need root-and-branch reform of Labour’s policy-making process
The Labour Party is carrying out another review of its policy-making process. It is the fifth such review…
We simply cannot afford to lose the Barnoldswick battle
As workers start their sixth week of strike action at the Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick plant in Lancashire, the stakes…
End the internal fights. Let’s focus on best practice
In May 2021, Labour will fight its first campaign since ‘that’ election one year ago. For most of…
Give us the tools for the job – and watch the Steel City rise
Most people will be familiar with The Full Monty, the film and musical about laid-off Sheffield steel workers, scratching…
