Leveller Day News Today

THE annual commemoration marking Levellers’ Day had to be shifted into cyberspace this year, but the online event was passionate, inspiring and did a grand job in celebrating our revolutionary heroes. There were rallying speeches, a moment of prayer and reflection, calls to action from contemporary campaigners, and music both rousing and melancholy. The full day’s programme was curated by a group including the International Brigade Memorial Committee in Oxford and the TUC London East and So...

THE first thing I must do this week is offer huge congratulations to my wife Robina on becoming the first-ever Labour councillor for our home ward, Southwick Green, situated around the entrance to Shoreham Port on the West Sussex coast. She increased the vote share by 20 per cent and made the local TV news — you should have seen the faces of the Tories at the count when they lost a seat considered such a shoe-in they have never even bothered to canvass there. I was moved to verse: When once, ...