Jon Lansman is right. Facebook is a barrier to a better political culture in Labour
I warmly welcome the intervention made yesterday by Momentum chair Jon Lansman on the antisemitism damaging our party.…
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It’s 2019 – time to finally ban conversion therapy in the UK
It may be hard to believe, but conversion therapy is still legal in the UK. Whenever I bring…
Closing our eyes to racism against one group only emboldens racism against us all
This was delivered as a speech in the recent Commons debate on modern antisemitism. For me, this debate…
Power imbalances are just the start of our economic problems
In September, the IPPR commission on economic justice, which I founded and chaired, described its plan for the…
If there are so many ‘bullshit jobs’, should Labour fight for the future of work?
Despite its name and history, Labour has never had much to say about work. In previous times, it…
Unions aren’t at the end of their journey – they still have so much more to give
In recent years, unions have come under attack. Successive Conservative Prime Ministers have systematically targeted our movement. We’ve seen…
How can we better regulate digital platform capitalism to protect workers?
There are now 70 million people around the world who find work through digital platforms. In the UK,…
When markets fail, we bail them out or take ownership. But there’s another way
In Marx’s seminal work Wages and Capital, he describes the economic relationship between the capitalist (owner of productive capital)…
Our society’s future mental health must be at the heart of our political decisions today
As technology progresses, the nature of work changes and we become ever more interconnected, the challenges that we…
With horizontal practices, organisations could be amazing
Organisations could be amazing. I submitted this as the title of my talk recently, when I was invited…
