How should unions engage with the new Conservative government? CONTINUE READING

How should unions engage with the new Conservative government? CONTINUE READING
Ill-informed comment and political interference won’t solve this high-stakes dispute CONTINUE READING
The deeply spurious nature of siphoning off misogyny from other Hate Crimes can be found in the definitions of each term. When it comes to attacks on women because they are women, they are interchangeable. CONTINUE READING
Charlotte Bence (Equity) and Becky Wright (Unions21) recording our latest podcast In 1982, Colin Welland won the Oscar for best screenplay. The film, also winner of the Oscar for best picture, was Chariots of Fire. Welland accepted his award with the clarion call: “The British Are Coming!” Setting aside he historical contradiction – those words… CONTINUE READING
Would-be practical obstacles to the Cox report need recognising and debunking before they become a justification for doing nothing. CONTINUE READING
Our interests are not protected by pretending that all is well in Washington, or by wilfully indulging the President’s repulsive excesses. CONTINUE READING
The real political question is what does the current leadership stand for? A bigger issue perhaps than the fate of one politician, however senior. CONTINUE READING
Fabrication, dissembling, being “économique avec la vérité” is seeping into everyday discourse on a wider scale and to a greater extent. It’s time to stop the lies. CONTINUE READING
It’s not been a great week for the mother of parliaments. Sounds like we need a beefed up Committee for Standards in Public Life. They’ve a big job to do. CONTINUE READING
The time now must have come for housing itself to be like gas, electricity and water: A vital utility that is fundamental to a civic, decent, economically productive society. CONTINUE READING