Why I’m speaking up for the NHS bursary today
Today I’ll be speaking at a rally for student nurses, midwives and other healthcare students who face damaging…
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Labour must remain an internationalist party
Like many Labour Party members, I was surprised and concerned this week to hear Ken Livingstone, the co-convenor of Labour’s…
Let’s remember the role Labour activists played in beating the BNP
The first time I ever voted, the BNP (remember them?) received just shy of a million votes, and…
Corbyn is right to seek loyalty. But he must also harness the full talents of his parliamentary party
So, the most unnecessarily long and protracted reshuffle in the Labour Party’s history might now have finally concluded.…
A Mexican standoff of vain stupidity
Are you kidding me? No seriously, are you having a laugh? Is this some sort of dare? A…
Corbyn demands loyalty as he finalises new Shadow Cabinet
We did not see the high profile departures from the Shadow Cabinet that we thought we might, but…
This was no “revenge reshuffle”
This is not, and was never going to be, a revenge reshuffle. It is not a contradiction of…
It is vital that Labour remains committed to tackling poverty and inequality abroad as well as at home
Today the International Development Committee released our first report of the new Parliament, focusing on the plight of…
Here are my 10 political New Year’s resolutions
My political New Year’s resolutions: 1) Campaign as hard as I can for our excellent local Labour council…
Renationalising the railways is not a total panacea for the problems created by the sell-off
Promising to renationalise the railways certainly accords with popular feeling since poll after poll has suggested that around…
