Fictional Crime Drama: Chris Grayling's warped view of Moss Side
Epsom in Surrey, an affluent commuter town on the chalk downs of Surrey that Location, Location, Location named the ‘Best place to Live in the UK’ in 2005. It’s just the kind of place you might expect...
View ArticleLobbying at the Tory Conference
It’s been over a week since the Tory conference left town. For several days, inside the almost militarised city centre, shadow ministers and carefully briefed mouths gushed ‘honesty’. Manchester didn’t...
View ArticleWe may be working harder, but we’re not all living longer
When Danny Alexander announced plans to link the public sector retirement age to the state pension age in order to increase it to 66, he repeated a common myth: “We are all living longer, that means...
View ArticleElected mayors: a sticking plaster on the north-south divide
Referendums on whether or not to have directly elected mayors will take place in 10 English cities this week. Underlying the political gamesmanship, the elected mayors issue reveals a delusional...
View ArticleThe Shrewsbury 24: Overturning a miscarriage of justice, 40 years on
In 1972, 24 trade unionists were arrested in the wake of the first ever national building workers’ strike. Six were jailed, in circumstances which union activists have long alleged were the result of...
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