Neil Kinnock's We are democratic socialists. We care all the time… speech has been delivered by Ashley Walters as part of a major new digital film project launched by the Almeida Theatre. Figures of Speech sees acclaimed actors delivering important speeches from history. One film will be released each day this week, beginning with ...
Theresa May's claim that the Conservative government is one that is working for everyone has been rubbished today following revelations that the wealth of the very richest has increased by 14 per cent in one year in Britain. As many Britons feel anxious about the future of the UK economy ...
It was with a certain sense of delight that I received a news release this morning noting a potential price hike on olive oil following environmental factors that put 19.8 per cent on the price back in 2015. Granted I use olive oil in most of my cooking, but coupled with the news that avocado ...
Not to sound ungrateful, but inheriting a country that is awash with unaffordable housing, mega inflated education fees, toxic air and a juicy divorce case with its biggest trading partner is a pretty shoddy settlement as far as young Brits are concerned. MPs last week warned that young Brits will be ...
Night after night the misery of war is pumped out across our TV screens, our social media and on the pages of our newspapers, and yet, even in the face of war, people are driven to show extraordinary acts of courage and humanity. Like Antonina and Jan Zabinski, the keepers ...
Plans revealed by Labour this week to ban all zero hour contacts, put a halt to unpaid internships and end the cap on public sector staff may have been received as dreamy leftwing rhetoric by most political commentators, but they are in fact our only chance of rebalancing the spiralling ...
My old economics teacher used to say that regardless of what other big issues might be surrounding a General Election the thing that really sticks in the back of people’s minds when they head to the polling stations is whether they can put food on the table. Labour’s chances of ...
Britain's super-rich are paying less in taxes than their cleaners, according to official figures. The latest release from the Office for National Statistics shows the poorest ten per cent of households fork out 42 per cent of their income in taxes – including VAT and council tax. Conversely, the richest ...
Of all the wise words that have propelled Emmanuel Macron to within a grasp of the French presidency the one that will strike a chord with British people is: "A Left that does nothing achieves nothing". After two terms of Conservative rule and a soon-to-be third term around the corner if ...