City of Towers – Christopher Booker
May 4th, 2020
This film has reappeared in time for the 40th anniversary of its second showing on the BBC on 10th May 1980
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Election result explained from @Sheff_socialist
December 25th, 2019
The only sensible thing I’ve seen written about the election result since the day it happened.
Taken from @Sheff_socialist with link at the end:-
A long thread about my own personal experiences during this election dealing with my Labour voting family deciding to out themselves as casual racists by voting Tory / Brexit Party in traditional Labour “Red Wall” heartlands
I come from a genuine working class family .
Grandparents were miners and domestic cleaning staff
Dad was butcher , mum was a cleaner and when she remarried after their divorce she married a miner .
I grew up in a two up two down terrace house that my parents rented from the local Co-op society and then moved into a council house in Kendray (Barnsley) when my mum remarried
Austerity isn’t over
November 1st, 2018
Right to buy – Richard Blyth
October 31st, 2018
Joe Halewood on the end of social rent
July 17th, 2017
@SpeyeJoe has been writing about social housing for a long time and in vivid terms with figures to back up his assertions. Today is no exception and if you haven’t heard of him now is the time to start.
Affordable housing? Oh no its not! End of social housing too! We need to talk ..
In his latest article he writes about the end of social rents across the country as housing associations abandon rents based on income for an “affordable” model which isn’t.
I’ve added his blog link to my “blog roll” in the right hand column as Joe Halewood.
Council housing 1976 – 2017 – C4 News
July 6th, 2017
In a section about the CIH Conference last week C4 news included a few statistics …
Grenfell Tower – Lakanal report
June 15th, 2017
General Election 2017 – not the last this year
June 11th, 2017
“You’ve got the Leader of the Opposition coming on the programme as a kind of victor and you’ve got the Prime Minister who’s supposed to have won the election, in hiding.”
George Osborne speaking on The Andrew Marr Show
“Even if he hasn’t won, he has publicly destroyed the logic of neoliberalism – and forced the ideology of xenophobic nationalist economics into retreat.”
I am thrilled that Jeremy Corbyn did so well in last Thursday’s election and pleased that so many former Parliamentary critics of his have had the good grace to wish him well and say they were wrong about his prospects.