A Covid Retrospective – In the beginning
We all strive to live in the present. Perhaps more than ever before, because of the information revolution and the growth of social media, we are the now generation. The…
Leading Questions for Kier Starmer
UNITY Starmer won the Labour leadership on a simple platform. He was the unity candidate. Corbyn’s leadership had been marked by division that had played badly with voters. This was…
Ten Steps Toward creating a Successful Learning Environment
The Covid crisis has been hard for all of us, children especially. And none more so than autistic children who need their routines and, if they are amongst the lucky…
COVID-19 and Air Travel
There have been a lot of comments on social media about continuing flights into British airports, particularly Heathrow. The prevailing wisdom on Twitter seems to be that thousands of people…
Labour’s Perpetual “Crisis of Antisemitism”
Today we release our #TenPledges, identifying 10 key points we believe Labour needs to sign up to in order to begin healing its relationship with the Jewish community.We would expect…
Postal Votes and the 2019 General Election.
Postal voting has been steadily increasing in the UK, perhaps in line with our aging population. When I delivered Labour Party leaflets to postal voters during the 2019 General Election…
Labour and antisemitism.
This is a letter I wrote to ipaper in response to an article on Labour and antisemitism. It is yet to be published. Dear Sir, In today’s i (November 27)…
Sharp Scratch
Sharp Scratch is a slim volume of poetry by members of the creative writing group at the Maggie’s Centre in Manchester. Maggie’s is a charity that provides free practical, emotional…
SEND National Crisis: My speech today.
A good turnout today, around a 100 families and individuals to protest the crisis in SEND funding as part of a National day of action. I almost gave my speech.…
England Poems from a School
Oxford Spires Academy is about as far from our idea of the dreaming spires as you can get. OK, it is in Oxford. But this is working class Oxford in…