Each year one in four people experience a mental health problem. If you haven't experienced a mental health problem yourself, it is likely that a close friend or family member has, although - given the on-going stigma attached to mental...
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This hurts a lot. We find ourselves a country who wants to close ourselves off to the wider world. A country already reeling from the shock of our decision and a country divided into two seemingly irreconcilable groups. One of...
Earlier this year, during one of my regular door knocks, I called at a house and the door was opened by an elderly woman in her late 70s. She was dishevelled, distressed and clearly confused. She had an empty bubble...
The last time the government took a holistic look at the arts sector was in 1965 with the publication of the first ever culture white paper by Jennie Lee entitled ‘A Policy for the Arts, First Steps’. The paper sought...
Six months before the 2015 general election, some of us identified the question of “how can Labour win in England?” as an existential challenge. MPs like John Denham, Jon Cruddas and Steve Reed, PPCs including Polly Billington and Rowenna Davis, local...
Like most people of my generation my first memory of banks wasn't a bank but a building society. But those soon disappeared after the deregulation reforms of the 1980's. After that they weren’t something I paid much attention to other...