Month: January 2013 Articles

On taking power in May 2010 after years in the wilderness, Islington’s Labour group, supported by the wider party membership, embarked on a groundbreaking process, fulfilling our manifesto pledge to establish the first Fairness Commission. Despite our sunblushed...

Remembering the Holocaust in every new generation is now solidly anchored in many countries, but this took many years to establish according to Gillian Walnes MBE of the Anne Frank Trust in the UK. She was one of 40 senior speakers at last week's international...

It’s a commonplace that the Lib Dems are Lib Dead. The polls taken so far this year have them hovering around 10 per cent - less than half of the 23 per cent they gained in 2010. Commentators assume that their 57 seats will drop below 20, all of which is fine by me....

Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided the Socialist Workers’ Party is a Bad Thing. She has looked at the comrades who hitherto she admired as part of a giant, mythological, heroic brave new...