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A week ago, a report came out which should be required reading for anyone in the Labour Party or who wants a Labour government. It's about low income voters and

There is another factor which played a part in Rebecca Long-Bailey's downfall. Which I noted during the leadership campaign and hugely concerned me. It was certainly the number one reason

Shortly after completing his dictionary, Dr Samuel Johnson was visited by a delegation of London's "respectable womanhood". They said: "Dr, we congratulate you on your exclusion of all indecent words".

Imagine a football club which, in 1985, was the first to achieve a hitherto undreamt of double of the Gola League (now the National League) and FA Trophy; and had

And now for something completely different. I've just been chatting with someone who does a lot of work with the BBC. He has a perspective on their situation which was

Sorry, I'm not deleting the tweet. I stand by it. And I'm going to explain precisely why.For the last 10 years, Britain has suffered continually under a government which has

It is, of course, utterly ridiculous for Boris Johnson to describe the UK's approach to Coronavirus as a 'success'. It's a bloody insult. We probably have the highest number of

Here's a statement of the bleedin' obvious. There's a quite massive difference in how Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn *do* politics. I think it's at the heart of most of

Meanwhile, Corbyn voted against a Labour government more times than any other Labour MP: FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT TIMES in total. His supporters - you included, I bet - praised

Why did the Labour Party's lawyers recommend that the report should not be submitted to the EHRC?Who are they lawyers for? The Labour Party? Or the saboteurs? "Here's a massive

Starmer now has a problem. His and Angela Rayner's joint statement won't satisfy anyone on the left. Nor, from an emotional/anger point of view, should it. It's classic Starmer in

Football, of course, is only ever the most important of all the least important things in life - and during this crisis, has ceased to have any significance at all