102 Quotes by Dawn Foster

Tory housing policy is the epitome of tinkering with the deckchairs while the ship is listing.

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

Good policymaking is evidence-based, and preventing crime and antisocial behaviour involves fixing the society we all live in, identifying risk factors and demographic characteristics that make some people more likely to become involved in certain crime, and then preventing those offences taking place as often as possible.

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

If shelter is a human right, why not create a national housing service to provide homes for everyone who doesn't have one?

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never live in a genuine meritocracy as long as the wealthy are able to protect their own interests.

Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them 'where they're really from' will see themselves as different to the aggressive stranger barking at someone to 'get back to their own country,' but the subconscious, if not explicit, message is the same.

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.