Michael Schneider (September 8, 2021). "Fox Alternative Boss on The Masked Singer COVID Cases, Fate of Lego Masters, and Canceling Labor of Love". Variety . Retrieved September 8, 2021. The play was sophisticated enough to recognise that it is not the case that there is one group of people in the Labour party who have principles and one group who want power. It showed that every Labour person has a bit of both. It was interesting that the leader of the council couldn’t do anything without Labour being in government because the council was being starved of funds – and of course we’re seeing that happen again. Labours of Love combines the techniques of social investigation – Bunting was formerly a Guardian journalist – with a deeply felt ethical inquiry. Over five years the author shadowed care workers, nurses and doctors across the public and the private sectors, in health care and what is known as “social care”. She sat in on staff meetings and GP consultations; she talked to charity workers, to parents of disabled children, to those running small businesses in the care industry, and to agency and in-home care workers. She volunteered for short stints in care homes and spent time in hospices. Listening, her interviewees say, is nine-tenths of the job. Care is about attentiveness. It needs time and focus

The play is a love story between two individuals but also looks at each character’s relationship with the party. I fell out with Labour most recently when it took a very different position to me on Brexit – I felt like a stranger in my own party. Like any sort of marriage, there are ups and downs, moments when you can feel quite estranged. And to govern, you do need a broad church. All political parties are a coalition of interests, especially in a two-party system. During the good times, it all comes together, but during the tough times you can be at war among yourselves. Despite the advance of marketisation, Bunting notes, swathes of the care economy remain hidden and its currency of time, attention, empathy, respect, tact, trust, dignity, discretion, reciprocity and solidarity is undervalued. She shows that care relies simultaneously on expertise and matriculated skills, and on tacit knowledge, the power of touch and wordless reassurance. These different aspects of care are not always successfully conjoined. The provision of care can be routine and repetitive, but at the same time attentive and compassionate. Care takes place in the interstices of the quantifiable and the ineffable. The testimonies she gathers constantly confirm what is meant by “good” care . Listening, her interviewees say, is nine-tenths of the job. Care is about attentiveness. It needs time and focus, and trust. It is not always about action; it is often wordless. It cannot easily be measured. Care, in other words, is often beyond price. Yet in a modern, industrialised society like ours, with an increasing population, it must often be paid for and given to us by those we do not know. We need more portraits of politics that are local and regional. The strength of our system is that, unlike American senators, we are not just politicians, we are representatives – and we represent a place zealously. I thought Graham did well to convey a real sense of place – Nottingham, over the last 25-odd years, is brought home to us. Graham, like me, is proud of the part of the world he comes from. There are points of detail that only someone from a former coal-mining community could possibly know. It takes us away from the chattering classes and the north London dinner parties and helps us to understand post-Brexit Britain and those who voted leave. If you don’t know anything about British politics, it’s a good history lesson about Labour’s triumphs and failures. It’s bang up to date, too. The line about the WhatsApp group for Labour MPs made me laugh – my own phone was buzzing with WhatsApp messages throughout. I don’t know how campaigns were ever run without mobile phones and the internet.Young, Graham (3 February 2016). "See UB40 stars return to the Red Red Wine Eagle & Tun pub". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 12 October 2017. The wife was a two-dimensional character who was so unpleasant it was misogynistic. At the end, the male MP gives his female agent papers to be the candidate and says she can step forward. But the way women have become MPs in Labour over the years is by struggling for it. They haven’t been gifted it by men who fancy them.

Short sections between chapters on the history of individual keywords – care, empathy, kindness, compassion, pity, dependence, suffering – offer food for thought. As Labours of Love progresses, we learn to listen. Bunting draws on an impressive range of quotation and argument, from Rilke to Paula Rego; from Walt Whitman (who worked in the crowded military hospitals during the American civil war) to Martha Nussbaum and feminist philosophers of care. This is a beautifully written book, full of insight and humanity. It asks important questions about the deficit of care in our society, to which there are no easy answers.Taylor, Jordyn (July 17, 2020). "Kristy Katzmann From Labor of Love Reveals What Happened With Kyle Klinger". Men's Health . Retrieved February 28, 2022. Like David Lyons, I have one of the supposedly safest seats in the country. I’d been the candidate for two weeks when I was told the people of Tottenham would vote for a donkey if you put a red bow on it. Lyons is told the people of Mansfield would vote for a tub of cottage cheese if it had a red rose on it. But still, on election night, I always think I’ve lost. All of it counts for nothing when the ballot papers are being counted. I remember watching Oona King lose her seat after the Iraq war. The play captures that feeling, the vulnerability of the candidate. Nothing is safe at that moment. The band defended their decision to make an album of cover versions, stating that they had always wanted to make reggae for a wide audience. Robin Campbell said, "We actually set out in the first place to popularise reggae. That was our intention." [5] His brother Ali added, "What we want to do is play heavy dub reggae. But if we came straight out doing that, it would never have gotten on the radio. We commercialize our music all the time; it's been a series of compromises." [7] Labour of Love film [ edit ] There were some things that just felt wrong. I think the idea that the majority of work for a Labour MP in a northern constituency is “dog shit” – as they say – is just wrong. The constituents have so many problems – yes, parks that are unusable, pavements that are fouled – but there are more problems than just dog shit, and it trivialised that.

In his earlier play, This House, Graham went inside the whips’ office to show very salt-of-the-earth Labour folk for whom it was all trench warfare, but who felt uncomfortable with Westminster. In Labour of Love, Jean Whittaker – the agent played by Tamsin Greig – barely even goes to Westminster, but she plays just as important a role as David Lyons. There are details that only someone from a former coal-mining community​ could possibly know a b Considine, J.D. (19 January 1984). "UB40 – Labour of Love". Rolling Stone. No.413. p.61. Archived from the original on 27 December 2007. Andreeva, Nellie (August 21, 2017). " Labor Of Love Reality Series About Women's Quest To Have A Child In Works At Fox". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved May 4, 2020.

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verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Campbell, Ali; Campbell, Robin (2006). Blood & Fire: The Autobiography of the UB40 Brothers. Random House. p.102. ISBN 978-0-09947-654-2. Contained within the book is a critique of feminism. Bunting argues that ‘Women’s Liberation’ defined itself against care. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) appeared just as the servant class disappeared. As middle-class women were called upon to fill the gap, they demanded work outside the home. Women moved into the workforce, but men failed to assume an equal share of domestic tasks. Some feminists abandoned motherhood; socialists called for ‘wages for housework’. But women continue to care, and this is feminism’s blind spot, according to Bunting. Sculptor Luke Perry’s medical worker, installed at a park near Birmingham, a tribute to care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Jacob King/PA Between the marketplace and rigid bureaucracy, where is the space for new models of care? Bunting notes that William Beveridge, original architect of the British welfare state, envisioned a role for ‘friendly societies’ – non-governmental providers – for the provision of healthcare. But this was a road not taken. Instead, a highly centralised national health service prevailed, which adopted a medicalised approach to care, valuing technical expertise over human values. Where this approach has resulted in poor care, such as in the notorious case of Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, health managers respond with programmes and associated performance indicators to promote compassion, as if this can be legislated and quantified.