Tottenham Articles

Over the last two days two reports have highlighted the dramatic scale of the growing youth jobs crisis. Both the ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment launched by David Miliband, and the London Citizens inquiry into the Tottenham riots have demanded action on the...

The riots in August were the most widespread public disorder in living memory. Never before had so many people in every corner of the country been so fearful of the walk home or what might wake them up in the night. The public disorder exposed the shortcomings of...

Today I attended the fringe event jointly organised by Progress and the Institute for Government on whether we should have primaries to select Labour parliamentary candidates.   In the pro camp on the panel was Tottenham MP David Lammy, who said primaries were a good...

Three weeks ago parts of London erupted in violence. Now, as the August lull fades, it seems that the memory of those scary few days is as well. The worst thing we could do now is forget the real problems which triggered that violence.  The people, old and young, who...