The triple lock: bad news for pensioners and a missed opportunity for Labour
What’s the key demographic challenge for Labour if it is to win the next election? Scotland? The ‘Red…
Andrew Fisher
Labour should borrow more than John Smith’s charter for employment rights
Listening last week to our Shadow Employment Rights Secretary, Andy McDonald, setting out the party’s vision on workers’…
Why Labour should be calling for a hike in corporation tax
Is there a contradiction between a leadership candidate whose number one election pledge was “increase income tax for…
We’ve applauded our key workers. Now let’s stand up for a real living wage
Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week told Conservative conference that the country faced “hard choices”, and committed the government…
Labour must offer a change from this failed experiment
On the doorstep in the 2015 election campaign a voter is complaining about how their local Sure Start…
Tom Watson’s olive branch to the RMT and FBU
Amid all the fanfare surrounding Ed Miliband being the first Labour leader to attend the Durham Miners Gala…
A socially just welfare state would slash spending…says a lefty
The popular myth is that the welfare state props up workshy scroungers, who are – in the words…
For 2016, we should be debating different structures, not different personalities
On May 3rd voters across England, Wales and Scotland rejected the policies of austerity. In nine English cities…
