Sudan and South Sudan James Copnall is author of A Poisonous Thorn in our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce. He was the BBC correspondent for Sudan and S. Sudan from 2009-12 and previously BBC correspondent for Ivory Coast and Morocco. Featured interview with Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque and extracts from her film ‘The Longest Kiss’ […]
Read moreGovernment ‘trying to stigmatise job seekers’, says trade union
Labour and Unite have slammed the government’s new mandatory Community Work Placement scheme, reports Rob Edwards Read original here > The government’s latest measures aimed at the long-term unemployed came into effect today, drawing the ire of trade unions and opposition ministers. The new mandatory Community Work Placements, known as Help to Work Schemes, require that […]
Read moreLabour beats the Tories when it comes to local MPs
New findings suggest Labour MPs are 73 per cent ‘more local’ than Tories, reports Rob Edwards Read the original here > There is a prevalent malaise among the voting public when it regards its elected representatives. Perceiving as an elitist band of privileged careerists, parachuted into constituencies from affluent nooks, then sped away without a backward […]
Read more“I’m a great believer in social mobility” – Left Foot Forward talks to Tory MP Adam Afriyie
Rob Edwards caught up with the up-and-coming Tory MP about social mobility, coalition politics and UKIP Read the original on Left Foot Forward > Few politicians embody the social narrative of their party as surely as Adam Afriyie. In a relentless rise from Peckham council estate to Westminster village, the Windsor MP has emerged as the […]
Read moreNumber of overdue smear tests rockets under coalition
First published on Left Foot Forward > Labour has hit back at the government’s announced extension of GP surgery opening hours, claiming that changes are too little too late, citing the spiralling number of overdue smear tests among working age women as a case in point. New analysis shows that some 360,000 more women are […]
Read moreInterview with Adam Afriyie MP
Few politicians embody the social narrative of their party as surely as Adam Afriyie. In a relentless rise from Peckham council estate to Westminster village, the Windsor MP has emerged as the essence of social mobility, aspirational Conservativism and true-blue grit. Elected in 2005, Afriyie has recently bolted out of obscurity – his backbench interventions […]
Read moreThe News Agents on Resonance104.4fm, Episode 14
Artist Susana Sanroman with Jon Bird and the artist Martin Sexon, 12/04/14 Listen here >
Read more‘When someone is raised in North Korea…their mind is paralysed’
In an exclusive interview, Rob Edwards speaks to North Korean defector and editor of Free NK, Joo-Il Kim, about life in the hermit state Read original at Left Foot Forward > North Korea is the nearest mankind has come to an Orwellian state. As the UN’s report into human rights abuses in the country so graphically confirmed, […]
Read moreThe News Agents on Resonance104.4fm, Episode 13
Ice&Fire Theatre Company talk about their new show, ‘The Nine O’clock Slot’ with Rob Edwards, Jude Cowan Montague and poet Roisin Tierney, 05/04/14 Listen here >
Read moreThe News Agents on Resonance104.4fm, Episode 12
Episode 12: War photographer Robert Nickelsberg, poet Kate Kilalea and journalist Matteo Besana – Afghanistan, music, poetry and huzun 29/03/14 Listen here >
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