Coate Water in the bleak mid-winter

This is Coate Water country park (click on photo to enlarge), the object of a long struggle to prevent ‘development’ … More

Christopher Addison, Council Housing and Swindon

80 years ago, in the 1929 General Election, for the first time a Labour MP was elected in Swindon. Who … More

Swindon is undergoing an ‘options appraisal’ of its Council housing. This is the charade that offers ‘choice’ to tenants to … More

According to some of the right wing press, Gordon Brown has abandoned New Labour. Some trade union leaders agree, roaring … More

The government has said that it has an agreement with the banks such that repossession will be a “last resort”. … More

This is an article from the current issue of Solidarity, the trade union magazine. It examines the experience of nationalisation, and … More

“The government is going down the wrong road and taking the wrong direction. There is no way we are going … More

Some weeks back the Daily Mirror announced on its front page “the return of the Council house”. Gordon Brown would … More

An interesting piece of news in the Guardian yesterday. Home ownership in England fell last year for the first time … More

living-in-the-ghetto.pdf I did not realise it but I live in a ghetto. Will Hutton, that doyen of the English middle … More