From Clapham Common to City Hall, elected women make a difference
I have walked across Clapham Common frequently. When I moved to London more than 20 years ago, it…
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How Labour in Hackney is delivering for older people via our ageing well strategy
Negative portrayals of older people are everywhere. They’re mocked as vulnerable, frail and needy, a burden to others…
100 MPs have backed the climate and ecological emergency bill. Here’s why
Tackling the climate emergency should be at the centre of everything that we, as a party, aim to…
Democracy is in retreat here in the UK. How should Labour respond?
This piece is based on the introduction to a new book from Open Labour and Politics for the…
Dr. Williams Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love NEC Impositions
It was over in a flash: Labour’s selection process for picking its candidate in the upcoming Hartlepool by-election…
They want a war over statues. I’d rather see a plan for rehabilitating offenders
The old phrase is that politicians ‘campaign in poetry but govern in prose’. The truth is that Boris…
Why I’m opposed to single-authority directly-elected mayors
Long before entering parliament, my opposition to single-authority directly-elected mayors has been consistent, and my views have not…
Labour ramps up calls for public inquiry into handling of Covid crisis
Ministers are scrambling to reassure the public that everything is fine. An NHS England letter emerged yesterday warning…
The integrated review is a plan to make the world more, not less, dangerous
Real security is about working co-operatively internationally to tackle the major challenges of our time. From climate catastrophe…
The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill would hit the marginalised hardest
The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill will be felt in marginalised communities more than any other. Those…
