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Have you ever been to Beamish - the Living Museum of the North? If you haven't, you should. It is a marvellous way of bringing our history and traditions to life. Connecting the old and the new, our past with our future. Central to Beamish…
The Irish Labour Party has voted in favour of reforming the way the party organises in Northern Ireland, which would include changing the nature of the relationship between the Irish and UK parties. At the Irish Labour Party conference this…
While the Tories' secretive Black and White Ball was raising millions from big business donors to try to buy the General Election, a much smaller political party has had to ready itself for the cancellation of donations from its biggest…
Jon Cruddas, who's involved in writing Labour's manifesto, has said that companies motivated solely by making profit should be stripped of government contracts. The Telegraph (£) have found these comments in a book, Blue Labour: Forging a…
Labour want workers to get automatic rights to buy out firms if they go up for sale or floated on the stock market, according to Ed Miliband. The new plans would mean employees have a statutory right to the opportunity to turn their company…
This weekend sees the world unite in support of International Day of the Girl, established by the United Nations in 2012 to raise awareness of the inequality faced by girls across the globe. The theme this year is “Empowering adolescent…
In recent years, the major institutions that affect our lives have been found wanting, at a great cost to us all. The global economy brought to its knees by greed and hubris. Our democracy undermined by falling trust, plummeting turnout and…
The rise of payday lenders has been one of the most destructive elements of the cost of living crisis over the last few years. Last week, Wonga wrote off £220m worth of loans to 375,000 customers it should never have lent to. At a time when…
There are two main sources of much needed investment into the railway – people who sit on trains and people who may or may not sit on trains but do pay tax. In other words – from us the great British public. This fact alone must demand that…
The BBC reports this morning that the Labour Party is to cut its near century long relationship with the Co-op Bank: "The Labour Party is looking to sever its links with the troubled Co-op Bank, bringing to an end one of the oldest…
These are clearly tough times for the Co-operative Group. Something has clearly gone wrong in the business and real change will be needed to put things right. The outgoing Chief Executive, Euan Sutherland is obviously a man of considerable…
Had it not been for this article in the Guardian I don’t know whether we would have bothered to complete a questionnaire from the Co-op despite receiving a letter about it this week. My family and I are longstanding members of the Co-op and…
