Labour’s response to grooming gangs misses the point – why would councils want to expose their own failings?

Claire writes in The House magazine… “…I realised that the government doesn’t understand what makes this an open sore in many communities when Ms Phillips boasted of the numbers arrested by the grooming gangs’ taskforce. Yes, seeing the abusers brought to justice is important. But a key grievance is that local state agencies have been … Read more

I tried to be generous when Ash Sarkar came out against divisive identity politics… but then I read her book

Claire reviewed Ash Sarkar’s Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War for The House magazine “In pre-publication interviews for her book Minority Rule, Novara Media’s sassy, left-wing firebrand Ash Sarkar came out against her own tribe’s embrace of divisive identitarian politics. It was surprising because Ms Sarkar has been one of the best-known pundits casting aspersions … Read more

Lords Diary

“One advantage of being a non-affiliated peer, with no party whip, is that I can choose which bills I follow. It makes for a varied political experience, but it can mean being an isolated voice, raising issues not usually considered within the Westminster bubble.  More gratifying is when something is so important it allows peers … Read more