Surviving our difficult times As a child, I remember finding a box in which my mother kept a collection of small, tightly knit, woollen squares. Asking what they were for, my mum answered ‘They were for the...
Surviving our difficult times As a child, I remember finding a box in which my mother kept a collection of small, tightly knit, woollen squares. Asking what they were for, my mum answered ‘They were for the...
don’t sell the kids to save the economy “It’s like being employed is only something that happens to other people.” For a moment, park the competing claims from the latest round of Party conferences. The...
While they’re standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time in the unemployment lines Sitting around waiting for a promotion. Don’t you know...
Barely a week into his Premiership, Andy Burnham had had to navigate an avalanche of political interviews, all expecting answers to issues we’ve ducked for decades. He did so with remarkable good grace and...
All of Andy Burnham’s instincts about putting the public sector at the centre of and recovery (and democratic renewal) strategy are spot on. The key questions are about how to make this deliverable. Everything...
Britain’s crisis and the solutions Even before votes in the Makerfield by-election are cast or counted, progressive voices are pinning their hopes on Andy Burnham returning to parliament and rescuing Labour...
Alan Simpson
Alan Simpson
