Salford Articles

Last year at my constituency surgery I met a former soldier, Neil Blower. He told me about his experiences serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrible scenes he had witnessed when his tank was blown up and his struggle with post traumatic stress disorder since his...

There’s a breathless, somewhat desperate, tone to the Liberal Democrats’ website appealing for council candidates. It’s like a low-rent dating site. The site says: ‘By joining the Liberal Democrats, and by becoming a councillor, you will become an active part of a...

Last week the home secretary announced that the government would be launching a consultation on the possible introduction of Clare’s Law – a proposed change to the law that would give women and men at risk of domestic violence the right to know if their partner has a...

‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’ comes closer than David Cameron has to providing answers to the riots. But after a decade of investment, even this may be lacking. Like wars, no riots are ever the same as the last ones. And like the British army in 1914,...