Comment The narrowing polls are a worry – but worse, Labour MPs fear there’s a sense of “drift” Today’s ComRes poll for the Independent has the Labour lead over the Tories down to just 3 points,… Mark Ferguson 31st July, 2013, 10:27 am
Comment The North East isn’t “desolate”, it’s beautiful Desolate: Adjective (of a place) Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness. I… Mark Ferguson 30th July, 2013, 1:55 pm
Comment Standing with Stella I’m going to make what should be an uncontroversial statement and work from there. Here we go: “Threatening… Mark Ferguson 30th July, 2013, 10:55 am
Comment Spirit, will and the drive to relate Approximately 50 years ago I was sitting in a jail cell. Along with 27 other members of C.O.R.E.(Congress… Arnie Graf 30th July, 2013, 8:00 am
Comment Unfairly dismissed? Get your credit card out – justice now costs you £1,200 For weeks we’ve been confronted by a wall of noise from the government, and endless reams of column… Johanna Baxter 29th July, 2013, 5:32 pm
Comment The government are aping the rhetoric of the far right – the arguments for immigration must be made Last week, the Home Office announced that vans emblazoned with the message ‘Here illegally? Go home or face… Wes Streeting MP 29th July, 2013, 2:43 pm
Comment Reality versus the London media “bubble” Perhaps the best end-of-term message came from President Obama, in an interview he gave to the New York… Stefan Stern 29th July, 2013, 9:43 am
Comment Labour Preston and a post-Capitalist world When the city of Preston is mentioned people usually think of our favourite sons Nick Park, Tom Finney… Matthew Brown 28th July, 2013, 11:43 am
Comment The wild west and women On Wednesday, a victory for women was won. After 35,000 people signed a petition asking that women remain… Emma Burnell 27th July, 2013, 4:25 pm
Comment Do Primaries damage Multi-Party Democracy? In 1994 I voted for John Prescott and Margaret Beckett and got Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In… Luke Sorba 27th July, 2013, 9:00 am