Kerry McCarthy and Marvin Rees: Why Labour’s vision must be a green vision
Earlier this year a well-attended event in Bristol saw local environmentalists, community activists and representatives of green organisations…
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Politicians must hold up their hands in shame over 40,000 deaths a year from diesel pollution
If each year serial killers committed mass slaughter, or if an annual flood killed thousands of Londoners, then there…
The steel crisis shows why we need Community Union back on Labour’s NEC
Since my last article events around the UK steel industry have accelerated rapidly. Scottish TATA sites Dalzell and…
Cameron’s reckless academies plan is an attack on our state schools
As Labour councillors, nothing is more important than ensuring all children we represent get the best start in life.…
Why Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher was right – and wrong – to say steel crisis was “good for Labour”
“Show, don’t tell” was a lesson aspiring novelists were once told, in a nod to the style of Ernest Hemingway.…
Nia Griffith: EVEL is a quick fix designed to deliver Tory hegemony
Next month voters in Wales will elect a National Assembly with more powers than ever before. Seventeen years…
Why Alison McGovern and Tristram Hunt are wrong on English devolution
Alison McGovern and Tristram Hunt are both wrong. Our English Challenge won’t be met by dreaming up more…
It’s time to focus the argument on Osborne – and why he got it so wrong on austerity
It’s worth remembering that George Osborne helped cause the Euro crisis – indirectly at least. In 2008, Gordon…
Jon Ashworth: Working with the unions to deliver dignity in work right up to the end
On receiving diagnosis of a terminal illness most people would expect sympathy and support from their employer. Especially…
Corbyn’s speech wishing the Queen Happy Birthday shows how much he has learned
This was another hurdle for Jeremy Corbyn – and nothing like the gung-ho attitude of Prime Minister’s Questions.…
