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Today we're more distanced from each other, the bonds formed at the local shop replaced by the massive supermarket or the stressed driver thrusting a package through a letterbox. Instead of meeting in pubs, more of us sit at home with supermarket wine and Netflix.Collection: Jess
For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side. When I was a young mother, Sure Start and tax credits weren't just a financial lifeline, they represented hope.Collection: Jess
For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.Collection: Jess
I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.Collection: Jess
The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.Collection: Jess
The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.Collection: Jess
Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.Collection: Jess
In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.Collection: Jess
Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.Collection: Jess
I'm not usually one to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn but I love that he doesn't drag his wife on stage for awkward snogs after his annual speech at the party conference.Collection: Jess
In short, that politicians do or don't have families should no longer have any bearing on their abilities to hold office or to care more or less about the future of the country.Collection: Jess
As a mother, I want the very best for my children. As a politician, I want what is best for all children.Collection: Jess
I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.Collection: Jess
I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.Collection: Jess
If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.Collection: Jess
When my children were little, I would chat with my husband or my mum friends about how we were superior parents to other people, or that so-and-so was lying about how their children slept through the night.Collection: Jess
I've carried witty banners against laws that would curtail my freedoms.Collection: Jess
It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.Collection: Jess
When working at Women's Aid, I met countless women whose families had not believed them when they spoke of their abuse at the hands of another loved one.Collection: Jess
My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.Collection: Jess
Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.Collection: Jess
I don't know how all of my friends vote; it doesn't come up. But it would be a lie to say that I don't surround myself with people who have a similar moral code to mine.Collection: Jess
Being in France means that I am surrounded by examples of nationalised services that work.Collection: Jess
The ability to say 'I was wrong' or to own up to your mistakes is very powerful. I teach my children that admitting fault is the quickest way to stop the problem, move on and get on with whatever it is you should be doing.Collection: Jess
The desire to look strong and decisive, instead of looking human, is the fatal flaw of so many politicians, and I will never understand why the favoured path of the political class is akin to a child with chocolate smeared on their face insisting that they didn't eat the edible Christmas tree ornaments while their parents slept.Collection: Jess
I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.Collection: Jess
In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.Collection: Jess
Still, I love a campaign. I'm never happier than when I'm fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.Collection: Jess
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.Collection: Jess
Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.Collection: Jess
Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.Collection: Jess
I don't think Jeremy Corbyn hates women - I don't think Jeremy hates anyone. Spend even one minute with him and you would want to take him down to the pub and sink a pint of mild with the man. However, in the hard left of British politics lurks a gruesome misogyny.Collection: Jess
I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.Collection: Jess
But when I'm asked a question I will answer it honestly. There is no spin here.Collection: Jess
Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition. That is why he must be thrown out of the Labour party. He is so certain he is right about everything, he won't come close to change.Collection: Jess
I like second chances; I've had a few myself.Collection: Jess