Building Up: How Brownfield Planning Passports Can Lift the UK out of its Housing Crisis
Incorporating density bonuses into brownfield planning passports can unlock new supply and ensure more schemes meet affordable housing thresholds
Opinion
Would proportional representation in the UK benefit the far right?
Proportional is clearly more democratic than first-past-the-post. But European far-right shifts and the growth of Reform UK are not good optics.
Meaningful, long-term change cannot be achieved unless we fix our political system too
Labour won the election with promises to partially reform the Lords, clean up politics, and improve access to elections.
Why Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is the biggest upgrade in workers’ and trade union rights in a generation
We know that driving up employment standards is good for workers, good for business and good for growth
Buds of change
Labour’s next task is to address the maladies that have scarred the country for the last decade and beyond
The power of finance and capital is maintained by sacrificing the lives of innocent people
The high priests of neoliberalism do not want to shackle capital or curb profiteering.
U.S. election: Why there is still much to do to ensure a Kamala Harris victory over Donald Trump
I share a message of cautious optimism as well as a plea for continued support – money and volunteers
Why Labour’s nationalisation of rail doesn’t go far enough
To sum up, contrary to newspaper headlines the entire rail system is not being renationalised
Women’s pain in healthcare shouldn’t be normal
“Women make up half our population. Their suffering should not be treated as normal.”
Wera Hobhouse MP: The best investment we can make is in education
‘It’s absurd that some parents are having to turn to credit cards or borrow money to afford nursery costs.’