The health service in Wiltshire is in an unprecedented crisis. Five out of seven community hospitals are under threat of…
Local government workers strike
UNISON members picketting social services; part of the national strike action in which more than one million local government workers…
The Dying Embers…the last days of the smoke filled rooms
Ok, I know it’s late in the day, but it’s never too late to come out of the closet. I…
“Home owning democracy”: What’s in a phrase?
A delegation from Swindon trades unions participated in the Parliamentary lobby on February 8th, in support of direct investment in…
Keep our NHS Public Health
Health Minister Patricia Hewitt has denied that the government is privatising the NHS. She says that the ‘competition’ she is…
“Making this vital service great once more”
Peter Brown is one of the few correspondents in the Swindon Advertiser to write in defence of Blair’s government. Some…
The British Unions and the New Labour government
The following is the text of a speech to the Norwegian Social Forum in Oslo in October 2004, to a…
The fate of Coate yet to be decided
From Swindon TUC’s August 2005 E-Newsletter Despite misleading headlines in the Advertiser, the fate of the planning application for the…
Hitting the high notes
Deny Baptiste, tenor saxophone player with Jazz Jamaica, taken at the Old Town Bowl this summer. Denys is another award…
Private Healthcare Vultures gather for NHS pickings
When the New Labour government decided to implement the Tory policy of PFI they said that clinical services would remain…
Martin Wicks 