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 […]
The contest for the three additional places for member representatives on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is heating up and tighter than many might have predicted. The places have been […]
By Sarah Henney I only decided to go to Brighton at short notice after realising with about ten days to go that there was no way I couldn’t be there. […]
On Thursday the SKWAWKBOX published a first-hand account of the situation in Venezuela that challenges the prevailing portrayal and exposes the ugly reality of much of the opposition ‘protest’ as […]
All the mainstream news channels and publications have been running dramatic footage of a night-time police raid to arrest one of two Venezuelan opposition leaders as part of their odd […]
Last weekend, the SKWAWKBOX reported the case of delegates from Garston and Halewood (GH) CLP in Liverpool, who were looking to crowdfund the cost of getting to Labour’s annual Conference […]
I spent the train journey down to London this morning reading the first chapters of Aneurin Bevan’s ‘In Place of Fear’, a master-work that was republished for the 60th anniversary of […]
There’s some necessary scene-setting in this post – context that has to be grasped for the main point to make sense. I don’t think this is going to be my […]
On Newsnight last Wednesday, a very sharp old lady nailed Conservative minister David Willetts during a discussion on pension reforms by challenging the idea that we can’t afford to maintain […]
I love ‘The West Wing’. It’s a glimpse of how politics could and should be, and a fascinating education in how political systems can negate even the best intentions. As […]