When the idea of the extension of ‘right to buy’ to housing associations was first floated housing association representative, including…
Council Tax payers should decide
This is a letter to the Swindon Advertiser. Here’s your starter for ten points. What is the relationship between the…
Labour’s Shadow Cabinet: collaborating with the enemy
Goethe famously said “All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the tree of life springs ever green.” Life sometimes throws…
Osborne keeps piling up the debt
The House of Commons Library has just produced a briefing note, “Government borrowing, debt and debt interest: historical statistics and…
Tory war of attrition against Council housing
Just before the general election the Tories announced that they were going to extend ‘right to buy’ to Housing Associations…
Ending right to buy “full stop”
“Tackling the Housing Crisis”, produced for Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership stands in stark contrast to New Labour’s…
Stop the election, the ‘wrong’ candidate may win!
Democracy is all well and good but when the ‘wrong’ person is in danger of winning you have to draw…
Owen Jones: holder of the Blairite flame?
Reading Owen Jones piece in yesterday’s Guardian I had to check again whether it had really been written by him.…
“Cash strapped Councils struggle to cope as Osborne’s austerity cuts bite”
Research by the Financial Times shows the extent to which local authorities are struggling to cope with the cuts in…
Tory ballot-rigging threatens democratic right to strike
“Today’s Queen’s Speech is a speech for working people, from a One Nation government that will bring our country together.”…
Martin Wicks 