One Nation Labour must be an inclusive debate
Losing an election should always make us re-examine our policy positions, to understand if and how the country’s…
Women
International Women’s Day is over – but Labour are still showing our feminist values
International Women’s Day is over for another year. The purple and green banners have come down and the…
The government has a blindspot when it comes to women
Maria Miller’s claim that it’s the Conservative Party that’s stood up for woman would be laughable if it…
PMQs Verdict: The Tories show they aren’t the British Obamas – they’ve got a serious women problem
Well that was always going to be an anti-climax, and so it transpired. 5 hours after Barack Obama…
Austin Mitchell MP has still not examined his privilege
There was some degree of upset last week when Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby tweeted the following message to departing Tory…
We do not live in a culture of equality
Next month I am delighted that I will be speaking on the platform at the Labour Women’s Network…
Time travel does not yet exist. But the Tories are doing their best
This weekend, partly to escape the twin mountains of laundry and dishes that built up in my flat…
Labour elects first woman leader
Well, not quite. The idea of a woman leading the Labour Party is so off the wall that…
An inequality so commonplace that we often don’t even see it
There was a period when all Labour Party meetings seemed to start with slightly cringey ice breakers. You’d…
The European Parliament works for Women
Unlike the Tory-led coalition government in the UK, the European Parliament boasts a thriving women’s rights agenda. This…
