Opinion
The Tories are playing a dangerous game with Russia
From Where I Stand — After the tragic attack on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Jeremy Corbyn was criticised for demanding ‘a decisive and proportionate response’. But the Tories’ grandstanding risks sending us back into the Cold War.
Written by: Dawn Foster
English lessons aren’t enough to fix our fractured society
From Where I Stand — Tory MP Sajid Javid wants to spend £50m on ESOL lessons to help immigrants feel more integrated. While that might seem like a positive move, he’s ignoring some much bigger problems.
Written by: Jude Wanga
Neville Southall tackles… Decriminalising sex work
Neville Knows Best — Footballing legend and Twitter sensation Neville Southall takes on the biggest issues of our time. This week it's sex work, and why it's time to decriminalise the oldest profession in the world.
Written by: Neville Southall
Why does feminism keep leaving sex workers behind?
#ThemToo — Erika Lust discusses the media’s dire treatment of sex workers, and asks why social justice movements like #MeToo have left them almost completely out of the conversation.
Written by: Erika Lust
The lecturers' strike offers universities a radical future
From Where I Stand — The current industrial dispute in universities about pensions could change the balance of power in higher education for good, writes lecturer James Smith.
Written by: James Smith
A vision for Britain? May can't even steal Labour policies right
From Where I Stand — The Conservatives are flapping desperately as the housing crisis continues, writes Matt Zarb-Cousin, because to admit the market is broken would be to accept that Tory ideology is dead.
Written by: Matt Zarb-Cousin
Neville Southall tackles... Youth mental health
Neville Knows Best — In his column 'Neville Knows Best', footballing legend turned Twitter sensation Neville Southall takes on the biggest issues of our time. This week he turns to young people and mental health, and how we should all be outraged that cuts now see us failing our children.
Written by: Neville Southall
Jeremy Corbyn is right to take on the tabloid press
From Where I Stand — This week the right-wing press have printed falsehood after falsehood about the Labour leader, and yet have still failed in their all out nonsense spy attack. Ignore their outrage at Labour's warnings, writes Dawn Foster. They're just angry that the game is up.
Written by: Dawn Foster
Soviet spy Corbyn? Tabloids have given up on journalism
From Where I Stand — The single source for the latest nonsense attempt to discredit Jeremy Corbyn is a fantasist, but that won't stop the right-wing press - terrified of a Labour clamp down on tax avoidance - from spreading lies, writes Matt Zarb-Cousin.
Written by: Matt Zarb-Cousin
Neville Southall tackles… Britain's immigration system
Neville Knows Best — In his column 'Neville Knows Best', footballing legend turned Twitter sensation Neville Southall takes on the biggest issues of our time. This week he turns to immigration, and a system that is lacking humanity, accompanied by an original poem.
Written by: Neville Southall
