Govt will NOT ban flammable cladding after Grenfell
In a move that ought to be astonishing, even unbelievable – but is anything but – the government will not ban the use of flammable cladding or untested cladding systems […]
Tag Archives: review
Formby’s likely roadmap for fixing Labour’s disciplinary process
One of the most misleading aspects of recent uproars about the Labour Party is frustration – on the part of those making complaints and the subjects of complaints alike – […]
Review: “Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism”
Last year, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party shook the foundations of UK Establishment and remade the landscape of our politics in a ‘Corbyn surge’ that was characterised more than […]
Author Nunns talks in depth on updated “The Candidate”
Alex Nunns will perhaps be best known to many as the source of some outstanding Twitter threads and schoolings of right-wing figures – most recently and highly amusingly of Daily […]
MPs, activists and union leaders talk about the SKWAWKBOX
Early this morning, the SKWAWKBOX published a review of its impact in 2017, outlining some of the difference this blog has made in 2017 with the help of its readers, […]
SKWAWKBOX 2017 in review: exclusives, narratives, impact and more
It’s been quite a year. At the beginning of 2017, the SKWAWKBOX was a relatively unknown publication that had made enough splashes since its reboot in late summer 2016 to […]
Leonard and Corbyn: real change CAN happen
Richard Leonard, the newly-elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party, will today give a wide ranging speech in Glasgow laying out his plans for the first months of his leadership. […]
Labour First pins its NEC hopes on ‘vote-splitters’
The contest for three additional places on Labour’s NEC (National Executive Committee) is intensifying after the SKWAWKBOX publicised the fact that the website for the ‘independent’ slate is funnelling the […]
Thursday’s Lewisham Deptford AGM set to be a scandal
The SKWAWKBOX has reported on many abuses of democracy by the right of the Labour Party – and has heard of many more than have been reported. Few have matched […]
Structural changes as Labour political line management moves to LOTO
The ‘democracy review‘ instigated by Jeremy Corbyn before the party’s conference last month is expected to last a year and will report back to Corbyn himself and party chair Ian […]