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Paul Mackney and the singers of Coppetts Ward, Chipping Barnet present "(Yes, We'll All Be Voting Labour) For the Many, Not the Few" a stirring anthem for the General Election 2019. Lyrics by Paul Mackney based on his rearrangement of a Scottish/Irish traditional. #forthemanynotthefew #votelabour #GE2019

We are delighted to welcome Holly Rigby for the first in this season's "Chipping Barnet Labout Presents": open and informative talks free to the public, on topics that matter to all of us. Holly Rigby has taught for the last five years in an inner London academy school. She is currently researching the National Education Service part-time at King’s College London and writes regularly for The Guardian. In this talk she draws on her experience as a teacher as well as evidence-based research, to discuss radical ways in which education policy could be reshaped. Could a change to university admission policies drive greater investment in state education? Would a 4-day week for teachers be feasible and what differences would it make to students? What practical and policy changes can we make to ensure that we are genuinely offering a fair and positive educational experience for the many not the few?

Chipping Barnet Labour Party is currently in the process of choosing the next parliamentary candidate. This short podcast explains how this works and what you can do to get involved.

We were delighted to welcome Dr Jo Littler as the next speaker for our Chipping Barnet Labour Presents series. Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this talk Jo Littler argued that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division.

"Chipping Barnet Labour Presents" is excited to welcome Professor David Nutt for the next in our series of free talks.

Professor Nutt is the director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences, and a previous advisor to the government on drugs policy. He was the clinical scientific lead on the 2004/5 UK Government Foresight initiative “Brain science, addiction and drugs” that provided a 25-year vision for this area of science and public policy. He broadcasts widely to the general public both on radio and television including BBC science and public affairs programmes on therapeutic as well as illicit drugs, their harms and their classification.

This talk focussed on the history of drug controls over the past century and how they may have done more harm than good. Professor Nutt showed multi-criteria decision analyses on the different harms of different drugs and will discuss new approaches to policy. Finally he explains how New Labour fell in to the trap of being harder on drugs than the Tories, and he discussed the need for the party to now develop a more honest and evidence based approach to drug policy.

Professor Nutt is currently President of the European Brain Council. Previously he has been President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) and the British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP). In addition he is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.