Unless FIFA acts I’ll be forever ashamed of the game that I love
From its very first days back in 1930 football’s World Cup has attracted it’s causes and conundrums. There…
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Labour must seriously consider a Lib Dem coalition deal
“A Lib Dem and a Tory are stood on the edge of a cliff,” starts the old joke,…
There can be no going back to the bad old days of expenses
David Cameron was quick today to offer his “warm support” to Maria Miller – his Culture Secretary who…
Tackling rip-off cash machines
As if being in poverty wasn’t bad enough, being charged for being in poverty adds insult to injury. …
Why Maria Miller should resign – or Cameron should sack her
Yesterday the House of Commons Committee on Standards published its report into Maria Miller. I complained about the…
Parents snub Cameron’s parenting scheme
To much Prime Ministerial fanfare David Cameron launched free parenting classes for parents in High Peak in Derbyshire,…
Fair Credit for the NHS
Last year in Newcastle I joined a local Sharkstoppers organising group put together by Movement for Change in…
Labour should use the fairness test in formulating the next manifesto
I recently spoke at an event at which I was effectively the warm up act for two of…
Lib Dems are not more pro-European, they’re just more right wing
It’s a pity the ‘spin’ put on a new study of European Parliament votes published by Policy Network…
It’s wrong when new homes fail to house people
Walk around much of central London and you see huge new blocks of flats springing up all over the…
