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Yesterday, I witnessed a horrible act of racism. At a bus stop, a well dressed and well spoken man started literally screaming in the faces of a family of tourists how much he hated foreigners, how they were freeloaders and how they should…
Society is a set of promises we make and keep to each other. That the strong will take care of the frail; that by paying in what we can, when we can, we will be taken care of when we lose our way. That we understand the value of educating…
What a week we've had. And thanks to a dreadful showing in the latest Ipsos Mori poll what was petering out may now be far from over. I am very proud of the way the LabourList editorial team has led from the front in terms of representing…
Our Shadow Cabinet is now almost balanced in terms of gender. This is a great place for us to be. We have a plethora of talented women taking the Labour case to the electorate. This is important morally - women make up half the country…
Russell Brand has a book out and a great publicist. His diagnosis of our current malaise is pretty spot on. His solutions however are woolly headed at best and inconsistent at worst. But Russell Brand is being taken seriously. He's never…
Labour and Ed Miliband are having a tough couple of weeks. Our conference never got off the ground and Ed's speech was not well received (or indeed delivered). Others here have talked about their confusion over our policy and strategy…
So now we know what we truly always knew. The Tories are Tories. They are going to fight the next election on welfare cuts for the working poor and tax cuts for the lowest and highest paid. It will be interesting to see whether the rise in…
The Labour Party have returned from our annual conference with sore heads and slightly sore hearts. The atmosphere rarely got off the ground. Whereas usually this is our first big event of the political season - one wecome to fresh from our…
I'm pretty well known for writing from a personal perspective. So I thought a column comparing the pain I feel about the referendum to the pain of my divorce would be easy to write. maybe a little trite even. How can this compare to that…
It is news to nobody that the UK is suffering a housing crisis. It is particularly not news to young people forced into insecure rented accommodation with ever increasing rents and diminishing hopes of security, stability and a home they…
Lately I've been thinking a lot about marching. I've been wondering what it means to march when it so rarely ends in direct political change. Do we do it to make ourselves feel better? In the age of social media, is marching an out of date…
The appalling conclusions coming out of the report into child sexual abuse in Rotherham should concern us all. On an individual level at least 1,400 people have had their lives shattered. These people were some of the most powerless and…
