How I’m taking a grassroots approach to my community’s post-Covid economy
Nestled between the perhaps better-known South Wales constituencies of Merthyr and Rhondda lies my constituency of Cynon Valley,…
Austerity
Dodds proposes new powers for councils to take possession of empty shops
Anneliese Dodds is proposing new powers for local councils to take over persistently empty shops on their high…
This crisis has again shown outsourcing should play no role in our public services
Public sector workers have gone the extra mile again and again during this pandemic. Just think of our amazing…
Let’s see the Covid recovery bring in a new era of municipal socialism
Labour stands a long way from power, with a leadership off chasing the will o’ the wisp of…
Surge in eye-catching policies from Starmer as January draws to a close
Keir Starmer took a significant risk this week by calling for critical workers to be vaccinated as a…
Starmer rejects post-crisis austerity: “Don’t make the mistake made in 2010”
Keir Starmer has firmly rejected the idea of implementing austerity after the coronavirus pandemic, saying “don’t make the…
Labour’s call for reduced ‘wartime juries’ of seven is ill-advised
David Lammy is right that a “decade of Conservative incompetence, court closures, cuts and reduced sitting days have…
Tory cuts, not just Covid, led to the courts backlog now denying people justice
An eminent criminal solicitor recently tweeted a story of a client, born in 2001, who had allegedly committed…
Give us the tools for the job – and watch the Steel City rise
Most people will be familiar with The Full Monty, the film and musical about laid-off Sheffield steel workers, scratching…
Sunak “choking off any chance of recovery”, says Dodds
Anneliese Dodds has criticised the Chancellor and argued that he is “choking off any chance of recovery” from…
