The National Education Union (NEU) said “School budgets are already overstretched, and teachers are now paying for food and stationery for their pupils. No child should be left behind.” This is why I support the teachers in their fight for decent pay. I stand in solidarity with all those voting for strike action to reject …
Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a chance to get some rest and recuperation over the Christmas period, after what for many will have been an incredibly busy and turbulent year. The start of this year is likely to be a time of immense stress and hardship for many people. Our community …
Looking at the history of the recent legal judgement on ‘wild camping’, thankfully it does not, strictly speaking, create a ‘ban’ on wild camping as such. What it does, from a strictly legal point of view, is say that there is not an ‘automatic’ right to wild camp. This all revolves around, in strict legal …
I am very concerned about the total lack of democratic oversight of the repeal or otherwise of the body of retained EU law that bridged the Brexit process, ie UK and EU-derived legislation that is still in effect. There have and are a number of amendments to this bill including Amendment 36, which would give …
I am concerned by the continued high levels of Stalking and Harassment. These crimes are part of the systemic gendered violence which unfortunately is still all too pervasive in our society today. The current legislation we have to protect the victims of stalking and harassment, the Stalking and Harassment Act of 1997, was too hard …
I have championed the fight against animal cruelty over the years, and signed countless Early Day Motions opposing practices and actions involving cruelty to animals in the UK and world-wide. I have always felt that we desperately needed a proper and serious scientific hearing into animal experimentation including all the practices that support it, such …
