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7/7 twenty years on
Ken Livingstone's speech from Singapore
Jul 6
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Simon Fletcher
17
May 2025
Further and faster on the road to nowhere
Labour and the elections
May 2
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Simon Fletcher
14
March 2025
Don't be in denial about the cuts
One of the government’s talking points as it goes into the spring statement is that it is not presiding over austerity or an abandonment of a Labour…
Mar 26
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Simon Fletcher
16
Less a u-turn than a swerve
It is now largely accepted that the government has moved away from its earlier leaked - or briefed - plan to impose a real-terms cut to personal…
Mar 17
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Simon Fletcher
7
Welfare cuts - Labour's latest collision with its own base
MPs must vote against the welfare cuts
Mar 14
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Simon Fletcher
12
MPs need to hear opposition to the welfare cuts
A government source today derided MPs opposed to Labour’s planned cuts to the welfare state as engaging in ‘pearl clutching.’
Mar 13
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Simon Fletcher
22
1
January 2025
The teachers' pay ballot is not 'extraordinary' at all
Fair pay for teaching, no cuts for schools
Jan 13
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Simon Fletcher
6
December 2024
The doom loop of the Labour right
Organise for the alternatives in 2025
Dec 20, 2024
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Simon Fletcher
17
October 2024
Labour's problem is Labour's right
As Labour marks one hundred days in government, Labour’s problem is now very much the Labour right.
Oct 12, 2024
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Simon Fletcher
13
September 2024
In defence of universal benefits and services
Why the winter fuel payment matters
Sep 10, 2024
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Simon Fletcher
21
Running for Palestine
The Great North Run
Sep 5, 2024
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Simon Fletcher
2
August 2024
Demand real change not empty promises or half measures
By Sarah Woolley, BFAWU
Aug 2, 2024
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Simon Fletcher
4
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