Last week, political history was made in the West Midlands. Simon Foster, a relative political novice from Labour’s radical Left defeated Mike O’Brien, the candidate backed by the traditional Blairite […]
Media and Labour’s opponents desperate to make Peterborough by-election all about Brexit. If voters see past it to real, everyday issues there is only one choice at ballot box on […]
Last autumn, the process began of selecting candidates to stand for Labour in the party’s eighty key target ‘marginals’. Out of the spotlight, that process continues, but there are problems […]
London Fire Brigade’s ‘Incident Commander’ Michael Dowden has received huge support on social media after receiving a brutal grilling during the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, in what many feared might turn […]
As most SKWAWKBOX readers will be aware, cynical centrists chanted during last Saturday’s “People’s Vote” march “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn”. Corbyn was in Jordan, visiting refugee camps for World Refugee Day […]
Yet more pressure is piling onto Theresa May with the revelation in tonight’s Evening Standard that she personally vetoed visas for Indian doctors desperately needed by the NHS. Hospital trusts went public […]
There is good evidence that Early Intervention (EI) services in mental health care save lives and money. EI services contribute towards reducing suicide rates from 15% to 1% when compared […]
The latest NHS England performance statistics show that the number of ‘elective’, ie. non-emergency, operations cancelled in our health service in the third quarter (Oct-Dec) of the year reached the highest […]
Small wonder that Jeremy Hunt has abandoned reporting of the waiting-time performance of our NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until at least April next year. The latest – and […]
The SKWAWKBOX continues to have a material impact on the UK’s political landscape and narrative. Over just the last week or so, we’ve exclusively revealed that: outgoing Haringey council leader […]