Uncategorized Familiar faces in old council records 8 Jan 201815 Jan 2018 Brown paper envelopes don't have the best history with elected representatives, particularly when they're filled with pictures of that representative, but in my case the envelope I happened to find…
Uncategorized The right to decent living conditions 8 Jan 201810 Jan 2018 Karen Buck, Labour MP for Westminster North, will be proposing a new law this month which seeks to improve the quality of rented housing. I say 'new' because despite two…
Uncategorized Membership size in the news 6 Jan 20185 Jan 2018 There's been a fair bit in the news over the last two days about the size of political parties, with one source within the Conservative Party claiming that their membership…
Uncategorized Crawley News 24 Column, Wednesday 3rd January 2018 5 Jan 20185 Jan 2018 Buzzwords come and go quickly in politics. A few years ago, it seemed like not a single sentence could come out of the Labour press office without the ‘cost of…
Uncategorized Crawley Observer Column, Wednesday 3rd January 2018 4 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 Happy New Year to you all. At this time of year it’s traditional for people to set New Year’s resolutions for themselves in an attempt to change past patterns of…
Uncategorized Tackling Crawley’s out-of-control housing costs 3 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 According to figures from the Halifax, published in yesterday's Guardian, Crawley saw the fourth fastest increase in house prices in 2018 compared to the whole of the UK. While this…