The right of members to select their local government candidates is being usurped by a Labour First power grab reports Richard Price, Leyton and Wanstead CLP. It’s selection time in London’s 32 boroughs for next May’s council elections – a time when party members come together to stab each other in the back, powerful figures… Continue reading A travesty of democracy
Steve Price reviews the Helen Levitt exhibition, In the Street, The Photographers’ Gallery, Ramillies Street, London W1. Helen Levitt has been described as ‘the most famous photographer you’ve probably never heard of’. This exhibition, featuring 130 of her images and running until February 2022, begins to show why that is. Apart from a year in… Continue reading Celebrating street life
A massive opportunity was missed in Glasgow, says Tim Harris, Leyton and Wanstead CLP. Hundreds of millions were looking to COP26 to agree the drastic programme needed to rapidly cut CO2 and methane emissions. That action is vital if global temperatures are to be limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels - and so avoid the… Continue reading COP26: Don’t believe the hype
Lesley Rodin, Great Yarmouth CLP, reviews Uprising, Steve McQueen’s trilogy of films on the fight against racism in the early 1980s. A follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Small Axe, and co-directed by Steve McQueen and James Rogan, Uprising was another landmark TV production. Three documentary films, screened on primetime BBC One, chronicle three pivotal historical events… Continue reading Fighting back against racism
Nick Davies, Swansea West CLP, criticises Keir Starmer’s Road Ahead for Wales. Those in Wales who took the trouble to read Keir Starmer’s catchily titled ‘The Road Ahead’, (not, it must be said, a significant cohort), noted only one mention of Wales among 11,500 words. They were right to be annoyed, but they shouldn’t be… Continue reading Road to Nowhere
Misrepresenting history doesn’t educate anyone, argues Richard Price, Leyton and Wanstead CLP. “Labour’s worst defeat since 1935” – if we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times since 2019. For the Labour right it has become a neat mantra intended to encapsulate how unelectable Jeremy Corbyn was by benchmarking the last general election… Continue reading 1935 and all that
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