By Andy Ford, Unite BBC Radio 4 recently carried a two-part report, The University Timebomb, on the disastrous state of British higher education. The programme showed
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By John Pickard My late father had a very wry sense of humour. At Christmas, whenever there was a reference to church services on the
We publish here a letter from a Colchester Labour councillor to the Labour Group, just prior to a discussion on having the council adopt the
By Anjum Peerbacos, London schoolteacher “Jeremy Corbyn, charity begins at home”, proclaimed Councillor Shazia Bashir as she stood at the podium of the Conservative Party
By the Editor Millions of Soul Music fans across the world will be mourning the death this week of Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul’,
By Anjum Peerbacos, London teacher Boris Johnson should learn to dress himself before he lectures Muslim women on what to wear It has almost been
By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party, personal capacity. A recent Despatches programme revealed the growing number of people in full-time work who are homeless. The investigative
By Harry Hutchinson, Labour Party Northern Ireland, personal capacity The Supreme Court has ruled that in cases of foetal abnormality, rape and incest, Northern Ireland abortion
By Lal Khan The rise of religious politics and tendencies with increasingly vicious and belligerent characteristics is wreaking havoc in the South Asian Subcontinent and
by John Pickard As the twenty first century progresses, there has been an increasing interest and not a small amount of debate on the role
