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 quote...

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 Talking about a...

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 openness. So...

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 hinges...

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. It’s a big...

Paulo Freire spent a lifetime in Latin America’s liberation struggles. He worked with communities brutally divided and oppressed by the rich and powerful. Literacy was his starting point but ignorance was the bigger...

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 quote...

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 Talking about a...

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 openness. So...

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 hinges...

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. It’s a big...

Paulo Freire spent a lifetime in Latin America’s liberation struggles. He worked with communities brutally divided and oppressed by the rich and powerful. Literacy was his starting point but ignorance was the bigger...

Iran’s blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, in response to Trump/Netanyahu’s illegal war, has thrown the world into chaos. It triggered a cascade of crises that was long overdue. Sadly, we seem to be chasing all the wrong...

    It isn’t often I end up singing Keir Starmer’s praises, but keeping Britain out of an illegal war on Iran deserves some recognition. It is a war everyone will lose. In one sense Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu...