Opposition Stirring Around UK “Bedroom Tax”
Edinburgh Sometimes you think you’ve heard it all, when really you haven’t heard the half of it yet, which was how I felt yesterday after spending the day working with almost 30 activists from...
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New Orleans My father, as longtime readers recall, would often greet me when I would return from an international trip, with the challenge to tell him “stories” that he “would want to hear.” Though...
View ArticleMultiple Occupancy Tenants Moving in Edinburgh
Key organizers for ACORN, Jon Black on computer and Keir Lawson speaking Edinburgh I could feel the excitement in the conversations at the steering committee of the Edinburgh Private Tenant Action...
View ArticleFinding the Line on Benefits and Drawing the Line on Rubbish
Edinburgh When it came time for the Leith ACORN branch chair to report on the accomplishments of the first 5 months of campaigns, the conversation among the leadership went from speculative and...
View ArticleDevolution in the North of England
George Osborne. Photograph: Joel Goodman/PA Newcastle I had ridden by Newcastle before on the train between Edinburgh and London, and mainly looked at the wide river and noted how striking it was in...
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