By John Pickard On June 18, 1984, police from South Yorkshire and other forces attacked unarmed and peaceful miners’ pickets who had gathered at the
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Privatised water is making us poor…and ill!
By Joe Langabeer Public water supplies are not only expensive and prone to frequent interruptions through leaks and bursts, they are now also causing significant
Rishi Sunak is staring down the barrel of the biggest Tory defeat in more than a century. Most of the first policy initiatives he announced
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Remember Amber Rudd? She had the whip removed because of her opposition to Johnson’s Brexit proposals.
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A ‘New Deal for Workers’: how it was repeatedly diluted
By Andy Ford The ‘New Deal for Working People’, painstakingly negotiated between the trade unions and Keir Starmer’s leadership team was, if not the jewel
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead Labour Party member) It was with shock and anger that local Labour members discovered last week that Labour had
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) reviews a recent Channel 5 documentary, broadcast on 31 May. Smart motorways were first conceived as a means
By Cain O’Mahoney The ancient Greek saying “those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad” definitely applies to the Tories, with their latest
By John Pickard A ‘dead cat’ story is one thrown into the political mix to distract attention from the more important issues of the moment.
There was no better metaphor to represent the popular loathing of this Tory government than to see Rishi Sunak announcing the general election in a
