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I have just been re-reading an excellent hard hitting report published earlier this month by the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government.
The Select Committee examined the grossly inadequate scrutiny arrangements in many Local Authorities…Read more…
The first phase of the Labour Party’s Democracy Review is very much upon us. The deadline for submissions on the organisational aspects of Young Labour, BAME Labour and Women’s Conference is 12 January 2018. The questions which are specifically as…Read more…
By Charlotte Morgan – 31st December 2017 Island Line is among rail services across the UK to be affected by strike action this New Year’s Eve. It’s the latest industrial action in an…Read more…
Picture collage from a lovely walk in North Wales last week. A 7.5 mile circular walk around the Alwen Dam and Denbigh moors. The dam was built in 1911 and flooded an ancient sheep farm valley in order to provide drinking water for Birkenhead in …Read more…
Andy Weir’s first book, The Martian, was nearly perfect. As I read it, I remember thinking: This is why I used to love reading science fiction. The film version starring Matt Damon, while…Read more…
A HEALTHY crop of entrants for the annual journalism awards for students at the University of the West of England saw standards rising once again, particularly for the new media entries. Highlights…Read more…
This is an article written by our West Ham MP, Lyn Brown. Seen here at the memorial to PC Nina Mackay. Over the Christmas and New Year holiday not only will public service workers be looking after us 24/7 but many of them will face abuse and viol…Read more…
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady looks forward to the new year, and the TUC’s 150th anniversaryRead more…
Latest in local newspaper about the “rigged” selection for Newham Mayor and call by local Councillors for an open and this time, democratic, selection process.
“Two councillors have welcomed mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales’ call for Labour to cancel t…Read more…
This is the first major biography of the Soviet leader to appear in two decades, and comes as the world marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is a tremendous achievement….Read more…
Automation advances must reach the everyday economyRead more…
I missed the launch of this excellent report by UNISON last month. This is not just a crisis facing London but in high cost housing areas throughout the UK. I used the report for this motion and speech to the London Labour conference.
“UNISON la…Read more…
Excellent article from La Jornada, in Mexico, 21st December 2017 on Mexican trade unions and the Mexican independent union Los Mineros joining with Unite the Union and the United Steelworkers in our…Read more…
Top present this Christmas from my Mum was a 2018 calendar featuring the North Walian impressionist painter, Kyffin Williams. The “Gathering” is my favorite. Read more…
Although I have stood down in the past year from all my elected positions within my trade union, UNISON, of which I am now simply a member like any other, I have not lost my interest in what UNISON, its activists and officials, are doing. Indeed, at Ch…Read more…
Merry Crimbo comrades (hat tip stroppy)Read more…
As regular readers of this blog might expect, I got into something of a row in a pub in the run up to Christmas about whether or not black workers experience systematic racial disadvantage in the workplace. I know what I know from the evidence of my ow…Read more…
Dear John Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Forest Gate North Labour Party.
Our next meeting is in January and will be a BIG EVENT. See details below:
Forest Gate North Branch Meeting
Speaker: Sir Robin Wales will be speak…Read more…
Photo college from protest outside Hallsville Primary School on Wednesday evening against the Academisation of our schools. The protest followed strike action in Avenue and Royal Docks School. I spoke at the protest as did other Councillors such a…Read more…