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This Saturday marks the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Japan and the final end of WWII. Unfortunately, much as with VE Day earlier in the year, the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic means we can’t mark the date publicly in the way it deserves, but that does not stop us remembering it. It all-too-often feels as though…
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Since March, the UK has been subject to greater limitations on personal liberty than at any other peacetime period in modern times. I’m not in any way criticising the imposition of these restrictions–if anything the UK’s relaxed approach to COVID-19 compared to other countries explains why our country has performed so badly in getting the…
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Back when I was new to the Labour Party, I remember wondering why people spent so much time at party meetings discussing ‘planning’ when most of us had joined to support public services, tackle poverty, and fight inequalities. What I didn’t know then was how much planning shapes all of these things, along with every…
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Visiting an empty Gatwick terminal, Labour Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds joined Crawley’s Council Leader and Labour’s Leader in West Sussex in calling for a plan to save Crawley’s jobs With so much of the local economy connected to aviation, it is predicted that the coronavirus pandemic will lead to higher job losses in Crawley than…
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A few weeks ago I was asked to speak at an online event looking into what the UK should do to make its buildings more sustainable. As a council we’ve been doing increasing amounts over the last decade to improve the sustainability of new buildings in the town and particularly the council’s own stock, but…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 