Month: August 2018

August is traditionally a slow news month. August is usually the month that those of us who write and blog about political developments get to put our feet up, eat ...

I had a lovely couple of days in Wales, doing a talk for the Caernarfon branch of Yes Cymru. It was a fantastic evening, and the venue was packed out. ...

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a new weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 outrage-driven social media news circus and gets to ...

Ahead of TUC congress next week in Manchester, STUC President Lynn Henderson makes the workers´case for democratic reform at Westminster, arguing that ending first-past-the-post will lead to more progressive policy ...

In her Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller (@mistressofline) looks at UK Prime Minister Theresa May´s visit to Africa this week, including to where Neslon Mandela was incarcerated for 27 ...

Theresa May has been humiliated for the Tories culpability in the injustice of Apartheid South Africa – but will history look upon those who back the Israeli state’s oppression of Palestinians ...

Ex-chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks compared comments by Jeremy Corbyn to Enoch Powell, but what questions did most of the media leave unasked?  DUBBED the summer of discontent, Labour is facing ...

Scotland’s lack of affordable housing has been criticised repeatedly by opposition politicians in recent years. Labour leader, Richard Leonard, has made building more homes central to his policy platform. UK ...

Asylum seekers were shackled for up to 17 hours while being forcibly removed from the UK by a private firm, with one “frightened” woman handcuffed, put in leg and waist ...

Fred,Petra and I had this very conversation on here a few day’s ago…Tis sad,but,I think dignified.I can see how .. Dark Money Ruth… would have used it to deflect from ...