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Like many councils across the country, Peterborough needs certainty, transparency and financial discipline. If Peterborough residents are confused about the future of their council, I cannot blame them. For almost two…
Read moreNow, before you read on. Their email asked for £3. Go for a quid, and make it monthly , and while you are at it, join Friends of LabourList too (if you are reading this, you clearly value it). Remember when we all…
Read moreEvery month, we celebrate one of our Friends and learn a little more about them. This month, we spoke to Councillor Duncan Enright, Deputy Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council and one-time rival of David Cameron.…
Read moreBeneath the rhetoric of economic renewal and “good growth in every postcode” lies a deeper contest about who holds power and where it should sit. Recent interventions in the Welsh political debate expose the fault lines…
Read moreLabour will today appoint a new General Secretary. Most coverage will talk about who got the job. Less of it will ask what they face – arguably a harder inheritance than any General Secretary in recent memory. Why it…
Read moreThe day he was admitted to a psychiatric ward, he had attacked someone on the street due to paranoid voices in his head telling him he was under threat. The previous day, he had left my office smiling, only to go to his…
Read moreHe will say that “those in our world who value our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny.” And he will warn that the “decisions taken…
Read moreAnd finally, why is the EU still allowing plastic waste exports to Turkey despite its own assessment warning of serious environmental problems? Questions? Comments? Let us know on our WhatsApp here or at +32 491 05 06…
Read moreDoch die Koalition streitet über das richtige Rezept zur Entlastung. Während SPD-Finanzminister Lars Klingbeil auf eine saubere Gegenfinanzierung pocht, will Friedrich Merz direkte Auszahlungen an die Bevölkerung. Für…
Read moreA spokesperson for JL Partners said that Jukes had been invited in a personal capacity and, like other guest speakers, had expenses covered, adding: “Anyone familiar with these sorts of events will know that no inference…
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