Month: November 2016 Articles

Philip Hammond’s autumn statement reinforced the position of Theresa May’s as a traditional Tory government – right eye on the business community, left eye on key voters, and everyone else falls through the gap in the middle. There were some welcome measures,...

Tomorrow is the autumn statement. It is the first economic intervention by the new chancellor since Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. But this is not the statement of a new government. This is the sixth year of this Tory government. What is unclear is if...

Tramping the streets of Richmond and North Kingston during a chilly November has been a far more heart-warming experience than I expected when I was selected as Labour’s parliamentary byelection candidate a couple of weeks ago. Up and down the constituency, there is a...

Last Sunday marked the 18th Trans Day of Remembrance, bearing witness to the 295 trans and gender-diverse people murdered in the last year in 33 countries around the world. More than a third (123) reported killings were in Brazil, with 10 across Europe (five each in...