I was planning to comment on the arrest of three NHS managers on charges of manslaughter in connection with the supposed murder of children by
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Will there be a crash in the City because those with disabilities have kept the money they need?
According to Rachel Reeves and her Treasury ministers, there will be a crisis in the City of London today because the £5 billion of savings
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Wes Streeting is talking dangerous nonsense on obesity
Wes Streeting says cutting 50 calories a day will solve obesity and save the NHS. That’s bad politics, bad science and classic neoliberal blame-shifting. In
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Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left
As The Guardian has reported in the last hour, Stephen Timms told the Commons after 5 pm with regard to the Bill delivering benefit reforms:
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Labour and the Pontius Pilate School of Politics
With apologies (but not many) for repeating this theme: Labour sees the problems we face. It talks about them. Then it washes its hands and
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The Pontius Pilate school of politics
Will the state pension survive?
I received this data from Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial advisor, in an email this morning: Only 17% of people think the state pension will still
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Why write to your MP?
There has been quite a lot of discussion here over the last few days about the merits of writing letters to MPs, although I use
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It’s been a long year
I have spent nearly a year criticising Labour in office. Before its arrival in office, I spent a lot of time criticising Labour’s campaign to
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