Month: November 2016 Articles

Last week the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published its report – Prosperity without Poverty – on how poverty in Wales could be reduced so that by 2030 the poverty rate will be less than 10 per cent, and that nobody is ever destitute. A mere 14 years away – before the...

Being in the third year of my degree, I know all too well the struggle and pressure that students about to graduate are put under. In October an atmosphere of expectation descends; an expectation that you must apply for jobs that have high job satisfaction, are well...

Some time has passed since the election of Donald Trump and I have found myself reflecting on things; not just on another massive defeat for progressive politics, but on the reaction. It is a reaction that typifies how out of touch the left really are; a reaction that...

When I started doorknocking for the Labour party in Glasgow as a fresh-faced 16 year-old, it was still then a heartland where we won often, regularly defying the ambitions of the Scottish National party. Today, Glasgow’s constituencies are all represented by...