Thanks and a happy, healthy, socialist 2018 to all our supporters
Just a very short note, as we approach the turn of the year, to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported the SKWAWKBOX in 2017. Whether it’s […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
SKWAWKBOX Labour MP of the year award winners
The inaugural SKWAWKBOX Labour MP of the year awards seek to recognise the commitment of Labour MPs to their constituents, to their members and to creating a genuinely-changed society – […]
MPs, activists and union leaders talk about the SKWAWKBOX
Early this morning, the SKWAWKBOX published a review of its impact in 2017, outlining some of the difference this blog has made in 2017 with the help of its readers, […]
NHS spending on private care rises by 38%. NHS waiting times worst in >10yrs.
A landmark analysis of Tory NHS failings published this afternoon by Dr Eoin Clarke revealed one hundred areas in which the Tories have failed or actively damaged the NHS. One […]
120,000 deaths and condemned by UN, but crass DWP posts its ‘highlights’ of 2017
Comment section As the SKWAWKBOX covered last month, Tory spending have been directly linked to over 120,000 ‘excess’ deaths – with a study showing five more people dying for each […]
SEVENTEEN homeless people died in 2017, average age only 46 – just in Brighton
Comment The Argus reported last week the shocking fact that – just in Brighton – seventeen homeless people died in 2017. At an average age of just forty-six. These poor people were […]
SKWAWKBOX 2017 in review: exclusives, narratives, impact and more
It’s been quite a year. At the beginning of 2017, the SKWAWKBOX was a relatively unknown publication that had made enough splashes since its reboot in late summer 2016 to […]
May’s NY Honours snub again displays Tories’ utter contempt for #OrdinaryHeroes
As the SKWAWKBOX revealed on Boxing Day, however much the Tories give lip service to the heroism and value of the UK’s troops, the reality of the contempt in […]
Video: May squirms when asked to pledge NHS ACOs won’t lead to insurance-based healthcare
As the SKWAWKBOX has covered, the Tories’ latest ‘top-down reorganisation‘ of the NHS involves parceling our health service into ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ (ACOs), along similar lines to the hugely inefficient […]
You CAN judge someone by the company they keep – says Stella Creasy
The manufactured furore over the SKWAWKBOX’s emailed question to Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy continues – and continues to become more bizarre. Ms Creasy herself has never actually addressed […]