The contest for the leadership of the Welsh Labour Party – and the position of First Minister of the Welsh Assembly – is well and truly underway, with many union […]
Last night’s BBC Question Time was filmed in Tory-heartland Hereford. Many consider the typical ‘BBCQT’ audience to be Tory councillors and angry old right-wing men and this audience was angry. But […]
Yesterday was a thrilling and inspiring day, as 250,000 people marched in London against the Tories’ war of attrition on the NHS. Labour MP Aneurin Bevan, the ‘father’ of the […]
You don’t need to read very far through this blog to know that I’m passionate about the NHS. I believe it’s Britain’s, and Labour’s, greatest achievement and the country’s greatest […]
As has been covered many times on this blog and by others, the government is going as fast as it dares, and in as subtle a way as it can, […]
Some time back, I predicted a fresh wave of assaults on the NHS based on reports I was seeing in the media and on statements coming from the mouth of the then-Health […]
I spent the train journey down to London this morning reading the first chapters of Aneurin Bevan’s ‘In Place of Fear’, a master-work that was republished for the 60th anniversary of […]
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]
On Newsnight last Wednesday, a very sharp old lady nailed Conservative minister David Willetts during a discussion on pension reforms by challenging the idea that we can’t afford to maintain […]