Corbynism unites West Wales
By Maria Carroll Last week, guest author Maria Carroll wrote movingly about her own experiences as the daughter and mother of soldiers and the state’s abandonment of veterans to […]
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Hancock’s half-app is a licence to kill the GP services we rely on
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is taking over where his woeful predecessors Jeremy Hunt and Andrew Lansley left off by escalating the Tories assault on the NHS as a public, comprehensive service […]
Tory chair Lewis gets owned by locals for SureStart jibe – it’s both hilarious and tragic
Tory chair and Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis showed typical Tory arrogance yesterday with a dismissive comment about a large attendance of local people to protest against Tory-controlled Norfolk County […]
All Liverpool CLP Chairs, Secs, sign letter calling on fire authority to abandon accelerated cuts
Merseyside firefighters are in dispute with the area’s fire authority over its plans for a major downgrade of fire cover on top of cuts already made in the first eight […]
Important: Keep our St Helier Hospital/NHS70 march this Saturday
The ‘Keep our St Helier Hospital’ (KOSHH) campaign has been fighting hard to prevent the planned closure and/or downgrading of one or both of Sutton’s hospitals. In recent months the […]
Liverpool’s most right-dominated CLP swings left
Liverpool Riverside CLP – whose MP Louise Ellman is considered on the hard right of the party – has long been the most right-dominated CLP (constituency Labour party) in Liverpool, […]
As A&Es collapse, meeting happening right now to close “last walk-in in SE London”
As headlines continue about the collapsing NHS and the ‘third-world conditions’ in Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments, with inability to access GPs and other non-emergency facilities blamed for a significant […]
60% of women turned away from refuges last year – now almost 40% are to close
In little-remarked news shared last weekend by the Guardian and elaborated on by the National CAN network, it has been revealed that plans announced by the government will result in […]
Video: Hunt to announce hospital closures – and runs away from questions
Jeremy Hunt, the worst Health Secretary in history, has been derided in the independent news today after a Bristol hospital trust had to delete all trace of his visit when […]
Video: 40+ maternity door closures. Govt: “it’s ok, they’ve had lots of practice”
There are occasional moments when you wonder what surreal landscape exists in the mind of a Tory. It can be glimpsed through the policies they inflict on the rest of […]