The SKWAWKBOX has previously covered the attempts of Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members on Merseyside to combat what they call the ‘revenge‘ actions of the local fire authority in closing […]
Today, as the public inquiry continued into the Grenfell Tower disaster that claimed so many lives just over a year ago, a fire broke out on the 16th floor of […]
As the Grenfell Tower inquiry continued today, Londoner Muhbeen Hussain took dramatic footage as fifty-eight firefighters battled a blaze in the 22-storey, 130-flat Grafton House residential tower-block in Mile End, […]
UPDATE 7 Feb: The NEC has now decided not to issue this statement. The SKWAWKBOX understands that today’s protest will proceed as planned, as the HDV project has not yet been […]
The Sunday Times has published another shoddy anti-Momentum article today, hard on the heels of its self-embarrassment last week about Haringey council and its widely-hated ‘HDV’ (Haringey Development Vehicle) plan […]
Theresa May’s recent ‘campaigning’ in Sutton and Cheam – she seems to have visited one or two streets – has proven to be an embarrassment on a number of counts. […]
Labour’s Fire Safety front bencher Chris Williamson has today stepped down from his role. The short official Labour press release states simply: Chris Williamson has decided to stand down from […]
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 […]
Cllr Alan Strickland is – for the moment – Haringey Council’s ‘Cabinet Member for Housing Regeneration and Planning’ and has therefore been a key player in the ‘HDV’, the controversial ‘Haringey […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at length the Labour candidate selections for next May’s local council elections. The selections have been marked by three key elements: outrage among the local population […]