‘Birmingham’s bin strike underlines why public health matters. Labour should talk more about it’
The Birmingham bin strike proves the rule that public health rarely dominates the headlines for positive reasons. The…
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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayor election: Nik Johnson on why he’s standing down and Anna Smith on knife-edge Labour-Tory fight to replace him
With local elections across parts of England less than a week away, I went to visit Cambridgeshire and…
‘Caving to pressure for new oil and gas licences won’t win SNP or Reform voters’
Keir Starmer’s Labour gained power on the boldest clean energy manifesto of any British government. Since the election…
50,000 back MP’s petition for a wealth tax to raise cash instead of welfare cuts
A petition by a left-wing Labour MP calling for the government to abandon its welfare reforms in favour…
Supreme Court verdict on women and Equality Act: Government welcomes ‘clarity’ but Labour tensions flare
The Supreme Court has ruled that the term sex refers to biological women in the Equality Act, in…
‘Still tangled? Rowenna Davis and the evolution of Blue Labour’
Rowenna Davis is one of two names on the shortlist to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of Croydon,…
‘There are alternatives to cutting PIP. Why aren’t we using them?’
I don’t envy the frontbench. They inherited an appalling economic legacy, with public debt at almost 100% of…
‘The government must re-nationalise British Steel’
Our steel industry has struggled since Thatcher’s privatisation in 1988. Once employing 186,000 workers in 1981, now thirty…
‘To defeat Reform, Labour must re-root itself into its working class base’
Note: Between this article being produced and its publication, one of the co-authors, John Mills, sadly passed away.…
‘Give mayors more power to tackle economic challenges in their regions’
Last week I attended the Creative Industries taskforce in London. It was assembled by government to develop a…
