Activist and hero Harry Leslie Smith passes
Veteran Labour activist Harry Leslie Smith has died aged 95. Harry, who served in the Second World War and wrote movingly of the suffering and death of loved ones, friends […]
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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 […]
Excl: Miliband set to return to Shadow Cabinet in NHS or Defence role
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is looking to return to a front bench position with the Labour party. Insiders say he wants a ‘big job he can get his teeth […]
BMA: calls for ‘shambolic’ Capita to lose contract after up to 48,500 missed cancer screening info
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practice division has tweeted its extreme concern about an ‘appalling’ error by private contractor Capita that led to as many as 48,500 women not […]
Drakeford launches manifesto for Welsh Labour
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 […]
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 […]
Exclusive part 2: interview with left Welsh leader candidate Drakeford
On Friday, the SKWAWKBOX published the first part of a two-part series on an exclusive interview with Welsh Labour leadership – and First Minister – candidate Mark Drakeford. In part […]
Exclusive: first of two-part interview with Welsh Labour leadership hopeful Mark Drakeford
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 […]
Astonishingly crass #PeoplesVote (trigger warning) exposes the campaign’s Blairite core
Comment The ‘People’s Vote’ anti-Brexit campaign let slip something of its Blairite nature in one of the advertising posters it is using in preparation for its march today. The campaign […]
Labour’s response to May’s ‘end’ to austerity: a brutal con
Labour has responded to Theresa May’s conference claim that she is going to bring an end to austerity, with a withering retort from straight-talking MP and party chair Ian Lavery. […]