Tory rail privatisation fails as East Coast comes under government control
Today Chris Grayling announced that the East Coast Mainline will be temporarily run by the government after being…
Manuel Cortes
Manuel Cortes: No more scams – Labour will consign rail privatisation to the dustbin of history
Last week the Treasury announced a freeze on fuel duty, which says all you need to know…
Manuel Cortes: Labour is on the Brexit front foot – now it must call for Article 50 to be extended
If Tory Brexit goes ahead on the government’s agreed date of March 29 2019, we are now just…
Manuel Cortes: Labour must argue to remain and reform the EU
May broke away from her Brexiteer hostage takers for a brief interlude on Friday to promote her underwhelming…
Manuel Cortes: Only Labour can save us from May’s begging bowl Brexit strategy
As the Tory Brexit shambles unravels, our future within the European Union is not the only future that should…
Manuel Cortes: Grayling and his cronies must not be allowed to cream off the cash from the East Coast line
This is the full statement published by Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, after transport secretary Chris…
Labour til I die – thank you and goodbye
That is it from me after two years in the editor’s chair. It has been fascinating and a…
Geraint Davies: David Miliband shows the widespread desire for a final say on Brexit
David Miliband, writing today in The New European, made the case for Labour to support my bill to…
Carillion hoovered up public money… now the neo-liberal model is collapsing – MPs and unions on builder’s failure
Senior MPs and figures from across the trade union movement have responded to the collapse of Carillion by…
Manuel Cortes: Grayling has to go, our railways are in meltdown
This year marks the centenary of the call from my TSSA General Secretary predecessor Alexander Walkden to Prime…
