Hundreds of thousands of workers took strike action on Wednesday, Budget Day. Protesting against the relentless erosion of their living standards, strikers included rail workers,
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Letter from John Wake, Harlow Dear Editor, Harlow MP, Robert Halfon, ought to be ashamed of his endorsement of the aptly-named, Illegal Migration Bill. Aptly
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member Nye Bevan, one-time Labour MP, and the Health Minister who gave us the NHS, once described the
A Review by Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) In this programme, broadcast on 23rd February, Datshiane Navanayagam, a reporter for ITV1’s Tonight programme,
By Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and
Apart from the right wing of the Labour Party, most political commentators have poured scorn on Keir Starmer’s latest relaunch, when he issued five ‘missions’
By Sue Denham Audrey White’s dispute with Lady at Lord John Liverpool, 1983 Forty years ago, a clothing shop manager in Liverpool, Audrey White, took
Review by Hilary Barker This small collection of six essays by Dorothy Thompson, on English social history, starts with an interesting introduction in which the
By Andy Ford The BBC recently aired a programme in the Bottom Line series on Radio 4, called The French Correction. It pointed out that
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The recent anti-migrant demonstration outside a hotel in Liverpool that houses asylum seekers is an example of
