Notts retired heating element engineer says “NHS, education, homeless people – we can’t let things keep going as they have been.” At the end of last month, Labour supporter Samantha […]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will use his first major speech of the General Election campaign on Thursday to take aim at what he calls “a corrupt system”: the tax dodgers, […]
Bell Ribeiro-Addy is the left choice in a shortlist that also includes two senior councillors from centrist-run Lambeth Hustings and the vote for Labour’s candidate to replace defector Chuka Umunna […]
Script that would have been video by late film-maker Simon Baker is turned into important guest post by Rotherham teacher Andy Searson on the importance of working-class values and history […]
Labour commits to indefinite tenancies for tenants in private rented accommodation Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey has pledged that the next Labour Government will protect private renters in England […]
Welsh Labour leadership candidate Mark Drakeford has launched his detailed manifesto for Welsh Labour – and the Welsh government – if he succeeds in his election bid. The forty-page document […]
Chancellor Philip Hammond made a point of ‘hamming it up’ for the Tory gallery during his budget speech this afternoon, pausing frequently to allow clearly pre-planned cheers and cries of […]
In June, the SKWAWKBOX published evidence of the involvement of Sandwell councillor Simon Hackett – an employee and close ally of Labour deputy leader Tom Watson – in a potential […]
Landlady Helena McAleer has launched an important petition that every right-minded citizen of this country should support. Many readers will have heard of landlords rejecting benefit claimants – but few will […]
Last Wednesday in the North London borough of Barnet, a woman apparently driven to desperation by her situation set herself alight in the housing office of Tory-run Barnet council. She […]