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Category: Peter Soulsby

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022mbarker2012

Why Leicester’s “Enhanced Bus Partnership” Undermines Efforts to Prioritise Public Need Rather Than Private Greed

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022mbarker2012

How Sir Peter Soulsby Rules Them All

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022mbarker2012

East Midlands Freeport: A New Anti-Worker Tax Haven

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021mbarker2012

Covid-19 and the Safe Reopening of Schools (August 2021)

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021mbarker2012

A Covid Problem

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021mbarker2012

Leicester Labour Council Follows Tories Not Trade Unions

April 8, 2021April 10, 2021mbarker2012

How Leicester City Council and the Police Undermined Anti-Racist Activism When the EDL Came to Town

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021mbarker2012

Does it Really Need to Cost £172,000 a-piece to Renovate the 134 Flats in Goscote House?

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021mbarker2012

Many Labour Leaders Can’t Understand the Meaning of Solidarity

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021mbarker2012

Email Sent to Linden Primary School Governor Cllr Ruma Ali (January 4, 2021)

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