News Time for a scene change: if you’re called Hugo or Crispin you’ll go further in the performing arts, warn Labour MPs Labour must take action to put class at the centre of the debate about the arts and tackle… Peter Edwards 10th August, 2017, 9:01 am
Comment Gloria de Piero: It’s time to smash the class ceiling in the performing arts “It’s not enough being talented, these days you need cash.” Steve Coogan’s observation is all too true in… Gloria de Piero 10th August, 2017, 7:00 am
News Former Blair aide and Owen Jones slap down calls for new centrist party An ex-Labour cabinet minister has led a chorus of left-wing voices speaking out against the formation of a… Peter Edwards 9th August, 2017, 3:58 pm
Comment If Labour is to govern again then it must defend its response to the financial crisis For as long as there is a debate about the financial crisis then there must be voices willing… Peter Edwards 9th August, 2017, 1:00 pm
Comment Labour can win with the business community but we must end the pseudo-religion of trickle-down economics Business needs a Labour friend There is a perilous and reactionary shift in attitude in Britain that puts… Gavin Pearson 9th August, 2017, 11:30 am
News ‘We’re going to run out of money in the afternoon’: 10 years on, Alistair Darling remembers the onset of the great crash Alistair Darling has defended the actions of the last Labour government at the height of the banking crisis… Peter Edwards 9th August, 2017, 9:17 am
Comment It’s time for Labour to end the ambiguity — and make clear that Brexit can be stopped The first wave of Brexit talks has been and gone. The first day “was so intense officials did not take… Alessio Colonnelli 9th August, 2017, 8:15 am
News Key Corbynista attacks “New Labour neocons” over Venezuela row A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has weighed into the party’s debate over the Venezuela crisis by accusing… Peter Edwards 8th August, 2017, 4:51 pm
Comment Corbyn brought me into Labour – now he must keep up the fight for equality I am 70 and was raised in a two-up-two-down damp council house in Lancashire by my mum and… Jan Bridget 8th August, 2017, 2:00 pm
Comment My blueprint to save our secondary schools – and snuff out the smokescreen of more grammars, a teacher writes I remember a rather heated conversation with a resident while campaigning in the general election. I think the… Chris Vince 8th August, 2017, 12:30 pm