Heather Stewart in the Observer Business section recently wrote: “…with the issue of climate change becoming ever more urgent and…
Addressing the crisis of the left
Below is the introduction to a PDF discussion bulletin, “Socialist Perspectives” You can download a copy here: sp1 Despite the…
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’…
Penalising Trusts for doing ‘too many’ emergency procedures
The NHS doesn’t produce widgets to be sold on the widget market. It has sick people coming through the doors.…
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…
Alfred Williams Heritage Society
An Alfred Williams Heritage Society is being launched in Swindon on December 8th at 7.00 p.m. In Swindon Central Library.…
Foundation Trust AGM
I attended a session of the Swindon & Marlborough NHS Foundation Trust AGM last night. The FT was launched at…
Social Care – a public service or a commodity
On Monday I attended an event organised by LINKS, the Local Involvement Network which the government says have been launched…
California’s real death panels
The religious right and Republican opposition to health care reform in the USA has used propaganda which has little traction…
Lobby of Swindon Council
These hardy souls above braved heavy downpours to lobby the Swindon Council in opposition to transfer of our Council houses…
Martin Wicks 