Politics
Five Easy Ways to Campaign From Home
25th March 2017
Local Elections are on May 4th closely followed by a General Election on June 8th. You’re registered to vote, but you’re snowed under! Maybe juggling […]
Rags to Rags
27th November 2016
A friend mentioned something the other day I hadn’t heard in a while – the idea of ‘Rags to Rags in Three Generations’. The story […]
No need for Labour MPs to struggle with TV interview questions about shadow cabinet appointments
10th January 2016
No need for Labour MPs to struggle on TV with questions about shadow cabinet appointments – the answers are incredibly simple: Q. Was it right […]
Star Boot Sale – Raising Money for Refugees
19th November 2015
I’ve helped organise an eBay auction of celebrity memorabilia and bric-a-brac. In an attempt to be funny, I’ve called it a Star Boot Sale, but […]
Make sure you can vote on May 7th
17th April 2015
It’s the most important election in decades – but are you sure you’re going to be able to take part? To be able to vote, […]
Justice for the rich, McJustice for the poor.
8th March 2014
This is the speech I made to the #Just4Justice Legal Aid protest on 7 March 2014. As you probably know, we’re going to be hearing […]
Karen Buck MP – Superhero
8th February 2013
It is great to see that Education Secretary Michael Gove has been forced to scrap plans to create a two-tier education system, which would have […]
Why you can never trust the Tories
7th February 2013
Remember David Cameron’s promised “bare knuckle fight” with Gordon Brown to save Accident and Emergency departments? Of the 29 he said he’d fight a blind […]
What Everyone Should Know About George Osborne
11th August 2012
With the Bank of England now predicting that there will be no growth at all in the UK economy this year, many people are starting […]
Five Simple Ways to Help Get Rid of the Tories
4th August 2012
Are you snowed under, maybe juggling work and family commitments, but convinced you have to do something to help get rid of the Tories? Don’t […]
Computer Crime, Good News and Bad News
28th May 2012
By all accounts, May seems to have been a terrible month for the security of government computer systems. First the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) […]
Out with the old laws, in with a thousand new ones
11th April 2012
Last week the Law Commission published new proposals for the repeal of a few hundred old laws, leading to a few hundred newspaper articles poking […]