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Tigray: The horror of two years of war put before British Parliament
Tigrayans in the UK took their cause to Parliament in a day-long national lobby ahead of this week’s second anniversary of the outbreak of conflict. By Sally Keeble @Sally_Keeble And they heard speakers at an evening meeting in the House of Lords press for the conflict in Tigray to be recognised as a genocide. The lobby reached senior parliamentarians including MPs Emily Thornberry, Thangam Debonnaire, Sir Laurence Robertson and Brendan O’Hara and Lords David Alton and Ray Collins.
Children paying the price of the Tigray blockade
Nurses help a patient wounded by shrapnel in Ayder hospital in Mekelle © Eduardo Soteras Jalil/FT Date: 05/01/2022Author: Martin Plaut By Sally Keeble Graphic images of famine victims are included in a statement released by medical staff at Tigray’s main hospital setting out the impact on patients of the year-long Ethiopian blockade on the region.
Seismic changes are needed
By Sally Keeble These will go down in history as the elections that proved Boris Johnson to be more than just the Brexit prime minister. His Hartlepool by-election victory wrong-footed Labour and the council election results punched holes in what was left of the ‘red wall’. In Northampton, Labour held its own but didn’t increase its representation, despite the outrages of the Conservative mismanagement of both the former county council and its county town.
There is a genocide in Ethiopia but the world is standing by
The world is standing by, allowing a genocide to unfold in Tigray, Ethiopia. After all the promises of “never again”, there’s a deafening silence over the outrages taking place in one of the west’s “go-to” partners in Africa. At a recent 24-hour global lobby on the crisis, one of the young Tigrayan presenters broke down on air. The cause was social media footage of yet another massacre.
Beyond the red wall – we need to win back seats Labour lost in 2010 - LabourList
Forget the red wall. What I want to hear from the Labour leadership contenders is how they plan to win back the seats we lost in 2010. That’s the Northamptons, the Milton Keynes, the Swindons, Gloucester and Lincoln, which swung about a bit during the subsequent two general elections in 2015 and 2017, before finally giving the Tories healthy majorities at the end of Labour’s lost decade. These are the seats that Labour must win back to form a government.
New towns: Barely scratching the surface
Building new towns and extending existing ones could be key to solving Britain’s housing crisis, argues Tom Beattie Just about everyone agrees that Britain is facing a housing crisis. There simply are not enough houses to meet demand. Those houses that are available to either buy or rent are simply unaffordable to the average person or family, particularly in London and the south-east, though it is important not to see the problem in strict north-south divide terms.
Social democrats' missing agenda - Progress
Over the last few years it has felt like social democrats have been missing a project. The IPPR’s latest Commission on Economic Justice could provide the radical ideas we’ve been looking for.
Productivity: Labour needs a rethink - Progress
John McDonnell’s recently announced productivity target for the Bank of England could rebound badly, warns John Mann MP At the start of this summer, John McDonnell has announced a three per cent productivity target for the Bank of England to be introduced by a Labour government. As the Trades Union Congress meets this week to discuss the future of our country, I would ask us all to think again.
SPD: People's party without the people
As the German parliamentarians prepare to go back after the summer holidays, the social democrat (SPD) members of parliament are facing an uphill climb, argues Penny Bochum It’s been a difficult summer for the SPD.
Tories steamroll Northamptonshire councils
The Tories dismantling of Northamptonshire councils demonstrates a contempt for local democracy, argues Sally Keeble As an exercise in political thuggery, there’s not much to match the abolition of all the councils in Northamptonshire. With the Tories’ national attention focussed on Brexit splits, and Labour’s on our internal rows, the seven Conservative local authorities in the county lined up this summer to vote to scrap themselves.
1997, women and Labour - 20 years on
The 418 Labour MPs elected in 1997 kicked out a Tory government. The 101 of us who were women also transformed our politics. Until that election, parliament had been a largely male preserve and that distorted public policy. We had a welfare state based on male living and working patterns, while many children and pensioners, especially women, were living in poverty.
Trump’s assault on women’s rights
Donald Trump’s executive order restricting abortion will have a chilling effect on women’s rights around the globe, argues Sally Keeble For sheer viciousness, Donald Trump’s choice of victim for his presidential bullying takes some beating.
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