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Crisis – Ending Homelessness
I was brought up in Birmingham and now live in London, so I went to Edinburgh with some humility, remembering that from the great Enlightenment thinkers on, Scotland has so often led the way in thinking about social policy. But even there the problem of housing and the homeless persists. I feel privileged to support Crisis’s new policy. A novel ambition. It wants to abolish itself through solving the homeless crisis. I spoke in support at a conference this week, in Edinburgh. read more…

Blair, Milburn and Hattersley: a modern morality
Blair, the man who stole the Labour Party and delivered it to Thatcherism, is now in a different frame of mind. A Land Tax, no less. A tax proposed a century ago by the Liberals, taken up later by Labour, and defeated by the land owning Tories in the Lords. It is indeed a no brainer. read more…
Socialism without the free artist becomes Stalinism
I’ve been a trade unionist all my working life. I have always believed that in unity is strength. But for me economism, the trade unionism of not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day, is not enough. I’ve always been on the side of revolution, by which I mean a qualitative shift in the power relations of society, so that workers control capital. read more…
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The Day the Music Died
Tony Garnett has spent his life telling other people’s stories. Now, for the first time, he tells his own in his new autobiography. Honest, moving and passionate, The Day the Music Died, is a book dedicated to the truth. It is now available to buy on Amazon. read more…

Topsy Jane
I received a link to this extraordinary video from my son, Will, about his Mom. My first love. Topsy Jane.
She disappeared. What happened? My memoir, The Day The Music Died, painfully explains….
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