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,…
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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…
Standing with Stella
I’m going to make what should be an uncontroversial statement and work from there. Here we go: “Threatening…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The wild west and women
On Wednesday, a victory for women was won. After 35,000 people signed a petition asking that women remain…
Do Primaries damage Multi-Party Democracy?
In 1994 I voted for John Prescott and Margaret Beckett and got Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In…
