Disillusion with conventional politics is widespread in most countries including the UK. Few people, however, were prepared for the size of the response when Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn announced in the late spring of 2025 that they were going to create a new left party. With days hundreds of thousands had signed up to a […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
The aim of this blog is to set out the different elements that allow us to understand how secure or vulnerable people are in the labour market – especially in the UK. 1. The Labour Force Participation Rate The labour force participation rate is the ratio of the total labour force to the total working-age population. The working age […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
This from the Right to Roam campaign. The antidote to political despair is… Dear Roamers, Politics is pretty depressing right now. As a campaigner, I’m often asked, ‘what gives you hope?’. And the answer isn’t to ignore the bad stuff going on, or wish naively that things weren’t this way. The antidote to political despair is toContinue reading "Right to Roam – Please help to lobby the politicians"| Walking the Old Ways
I’ve just listened to Rachel Reeves trying to justify planned cuts to disability benefits on the Today programme by relying on the ‘disabled people want to work and the system writes th…| Making rights make sense
In October 2022, as Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng sent the pound downwards and interest rates skywards, Tony Yates offered an insight into why the financial markets were not giving the UK and even h…| Flip Chart Fairy Tales