‘They do it by stealth, slowly, so people don’t realise it is happening’ LUCY WOOD reports from the Colchester protest against NHS cuts and privatisation last weekend
Features | Tuesday 09th Jun 2020 ‘We need to unite the left to become a strong voice inside and outside the party’
Monday 30th Dec 2019 How Unite is developing the trade unionists of tomorrow LUCY WOOD reports on the success of the Unite in Schools programme that’s taking the values of the movement into the classroom
Friday 20th Dec 2019 Labour can only be relevant to people if it gives them the power The party needs a strategy to win back working people before it starts focusing on who should be leader, writes LUCY WOOD
Tuesday 13th Aug 2019 The Tories' zombie libraries The move to close 25 libraries and remove support for others will come back to haunt the Essex Tories, writes LUCY WOOD
Tuesday 30th Jul 2019 Legal aid – happy birthday and goodbye? Established today 70 years ago, legal aid has given the poor protection from the law – now it hangs in the balance, explains LUCY WOOD
Tuesday 23rd Jul 2019 Essex poverty in focus LUCY WOOD reports on a meeting of human rights experts and community campaigners in Jaywick – which topped the English deprivation index in 2010 and 2015
Tuesday 30th Apr 2019 The first strike in 500 years LUCY WOOD writes on a historic strike at Trinity House, an ancient association founded for the welfare of seafarers
Thursday 04th Apr 2019 Happy with that? Who has fed our young soldiers a diet of hatred for the Labour leader? A VIDEO circulates via social media of four soldiers firing guns at a shooting range with a banner stating “happy with that.” The camera then pans
Thursday 21st Mar 2019 Facebook's ‘community standards’ are double-standards The social media giant seems unable to enforce its own rules when it comes to far-right, white supremacist material, writes LUCY WOOD
