We need to crack Westminster open. That’s why I spent so much of my summer in the pub
In recess, some of my colleagues have made important speeches. Some have marched for great causes. Some, and some others, have set up…
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If the Tories scrap the Human Rights Act, women will suffer
Gone are the days in the UK when women could not vote, own property, be educated, or hold…
Join us in our campaign to save the NHS
From the cradle to the grave: for most of us, the first face we see when we are…
Labour’s new way forward for higher education
At 3.50pm on Friday 16 October 1964, Harold Wilson’s office took the call from the Queen’s Private Secretary,…
The left must be concerned with the state of the state
The appalling conclusions coming out of the report into child sexual abuse in Rotherham should concern us all.…
It’s morally wrong to make patients pay for hospital parking
Over the Bank Holiday weekend the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was trumpeting his new ‘ground rules’ to address…
Life skills need to be at the heart of Labour’s curriculum
When Gove was demoted and moved away from his beloved education brief you could almost hear the sound…
We English need a debate like the Scots
I’m envious of my Scottish friends. From my limited connection to politics north of the border, the debate…
Why Pakistanis should be angry as everyone else with what happened in Rotherham
The exposé of child sexual abuse in Rotherham over 16 years reads more like a horror story than an…
Farage might be UKIP’s candidate but only Labour has the answers in South Thanet
Now that Nigel Farage has announced he is throwing his hat in the ring, South Thanet is a…
