community activism Articles

There are two answers to the question we posed at the Progress meeting at Labour North West conference. How you answer it defines how you are going to act politically. The first is a short answer. No. We have got a Tory government, Britain cannot be fairer. If we get...

Much has been said in recent days about the need for Labour to listen, learn and reconnect with the voters. That is admirable, but does anyone know what it means in practice? As elections come and go meanwhile, and as Labour loses ever larger numbers of its...

Margaret Hodge has set about engagement in our communities as the topic of the week. I have thought about how we are doing this in Bristol West, how we might improve and how it is currently connected to what we are picking up on doorstep and on the phone. In the...

I want to start by making a confession. You see, I am not an academic, I am not a politician, I am not even a writer. I am in fact just a very ordinary 40-year-old nurse and mother-of-two living and working in Nottingham. I have been a member of the No More Page 3...