Thursday, 13 December 2018

The Brexiteers solution to the backstop? Starve the Irish into submission

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Throwing Anglo-Irish relations under the banjaxed Brexit bus has caused untold hurt and harm. Anna Soubry’s apology to the Irish people yes...
Friday, 30 November 2018

UN condemns child poverty in UK as "a social calamity and economic disaster"

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“The state does not have your back any longer. You are on your own”. Those were just some of the UN’s scathing criticisms of the Tory...
Thursday, 25 October 2018

Ryanair's failure to condemn racist rant is tantamount to condoning it. In Brexitland racism is all the rage!

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From today, passengers booking flights on Ryanair will be able to request not to be seated next to a racist. For just £110 (one way) cust...
Monday, 1 October 2018

The Labour Party conference: A government in waiting

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From Emily Thornberry to Diane Abbott, Labour oozed talent, ideas & competence at this years conference. As I said to Sky news after Je...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Chuka Umunna should be attacking the Tories, not falsely accusing Labour of institutional racism

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With Labour ahead in the polls and the Tories on the ropes, a Blairite sabotage attempt was predictable. The failed coup of 2016 wasn’...
Saturday, 21 July 2018

The Tories are Cheating & Lying to Get Bonkers Brexit Through Parliament. Elsewhere - On Another Planet - Trump redefines the English language

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Lib Dem MP, Jo Swinson, went ballistic this week when she discovered that Tory MP, Brandon Lewis, had voted in a crunch Brexit vote. The p...
Thursday, 5 July 2018

The NHS is 70 Today. Happy Birthday!

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The NHS is 70 years old today. It was conceived and given birth to, by Labour. Resisted by doctors and blocked 21 times by the Tories, the...
Sunday, 24 June 2018

Stop Tory Brexit!

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This week, more than most, I felt like I was drowning in a cesspit of Tory generated excrement. Just when you think a new low is not possi...
Thursday, 14 June 2018

One year on from Grenfell, survivors remain traumatised & homeless. Deprived of justice & peace

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I wrote the blog below shortly after the preventable inferno at Grenfell tower that killed 72 people. Twelve months on, survivors remain tr...
Friday, 25 May 2018

Today is Repeal the 8th day. The Catholic Church has exerted jurisdiction over Irish women's wombs for too long

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This piece was published in today's Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ireland-dublin-repeal-the-eighth-amendment-refer...
Thursday, 10 May 2018

"I thought my baby was going to die"! Mother warns health bosses that A&E closures will be the death of people

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Meet Sarah. Friend and single mother to 5 children, one with a chronic illness. Under the cover of daily dead cats & Tory chaos, the dec...
Thursday, 3 May 2018

Angry about Windrush & austerity? Get out and Vote today!

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Are you angry about Windrush? Or, the eight years of austerity that has seen the poor atone for the sins of the rich? Or, the decimation o...
Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Brexit is undermining The Good Friday Agreement & peace in Northern Ireland

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It's the twentieth anniversary of The Good Friday Agreement today. My piece in Independent Voices below. https://www.independent.co.uk...
Friday, 23 March 2018

Irrespective of whether the BBC intended to frame Jeremy Corbyn as a “Russian Stooge”, the risks of that perception should have been apparent and intercepted.

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Carole Cadwalladr and Channel 4’s exposure of the Cambridge Analytica scandal reminded me of the legendary Washington Post editor, Ben Bra...