How can you talk about social justice?
[ Originally published in the TES on 16th September and online https://t.co/UQfIvtGYED ] Dear Theresa May, In 1991 I had a long correspondence with one of your predecessors, John Major. That led to what the Prime Minister’s aide said was “one of Downing Street’s epic exchanges of correspondence”. It went on for two years. I appreciate that you currently have enormous demands on your time and you will not want to enter into another epic exchange, nor is it desirable that you s
The Corbyn Identity
He’s no Bevan, Foot, Kinnock, or even Benn - and he's a loner As I approached my 92nd birthday and seventieth year of membership of the Labour Party, I was greatly saddened by the sense of despair I found among my friends about the present state of our Party, and their feeling that failure to deal with the impending impasse could be life-threatening. None of my friends are "Blairites" or "Corbynistas". If they had to have a label it would be "Original Labour". Like me, some o
