Well said Caroline Lucas

The annual The New Statesman Debate, delivered to a packed The Cambridge Union - Andrew Marr, Grace Blakeley, Lord Simon Woolley Homerton College, Melissa Benn, Alan Johnson, & Caroline Lucas ✨✨

Debating Labour policies at the ⁦Cambridge Literary Festival⁩ - big crowd willing on a future Labour government.

Good for you Nesrine Malik!

Thanks Al McConville - your piece is great. Look forward to hearing you talk at the online launch on Tuesday May 21st at 6 pm. Details to follow!

The callousness - and inflexible bureaucracy - of the DWP is unbelievable. And why can't Carer's Allowance be paid regardless of income, and the higher earners among them (of which I bet there are very few) be taxed on total income? theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The stories of Benn and Warner are shocking. Thanks ⁦Natasha Walter⁩ for drawing our attention to it.

Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed | Environmental activism | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

...and talking to Ian Dunt about why he thinks Westminster doesn't work, and how to fix it. cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/ian-dun…

Will also be discussing this very interesting book by Caroline Lucas ........... cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/carolin…

One of three discussions I will be involved in next weekend; not surprisingly it was sold out pretty much soon as tickets went on sale; most places I go, people are involved in a version of this debate........ cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/the-new…

That’s a pretty impressive list!

The state we’re in!

Yes I am encouraged by Hutton’s argument as well. It breaks us out of the current hope-sapping consensus about growth and public services.

You’re right John F. Holford It cannot be bettered but it has been neglected - if not forgotten - this last half century by those in charge of educational
policy.

Dick Fontaine introduced me to work of James Baldwin, Smokey Robinson and many others when I was a young woman and I last met him a year or so ago at an LRB event about his work. So glad to see ‘ I Heard It Through the Grapevine’ is on in London.A lovely man, a great film maker.

Melissa Benn In our work, book coming out in June, we identified the following as important factors.

Interesting Chris Mullin

Yes - what would be the point of that?

Over a quarter of those who want to become teachers are now applying from abroad. Why is the job so unappealing, after fourteen-plus years of allegedly successful Tory reform?

'Our school roof came off... Spend VAT on fixing buildings.'

Far more coverage has gone to those who feel VAT on private school fees is unfair than to those who think it is (majority of public, including two-fifths of private school parents).

A state school head has his say 👇