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The legal process and politics of alleged breaches of lockdown rules by senior politicians are innately intertwined. Whilst in reality the law and investigations regarding ‘partygate’ and ‘beergate’ are rather different, to the public both…
It is easy to feel very small and powerless as the world is engulfed by existential crises. First, the onset of the pandemic in 2020 immediately changed the way we all live, dramatically curtailing our freedoms (apart from those living in…
Labour can win the next general election. On the morning of 13th December 2019, as the extent of Boris Johnson’s majority became clear and Tory aides sang 'Things Can Only Get Better' after a decade of Conservative rule, the prospect of a…
Whenever travelling abroad, I am always struck by the reaction from those I meet upon finding out I am British. In America, new friends would ask about the Royal family: how many times had I met the Queen, I was asked, with an assumption…
On 31st March 1968, Dr Martin Luther King gave a famous address at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and, paraphrasing a sermon of Theodore Parker, said: "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice". It is…
During the sixth minute of football matches played across the country last weekend, the crowds for both teams stood and applauded. Screens in the stadiums were showing an image of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, the six-year-old boy murdered by his…
Around the world, 200 million adults will soon be able to legally access medical assistance to die in certain circumstances. A form of assisted dying – a controversial topic at the intersection of ethics, medicine and law – will be…
Dominic Raab has become the eighth Justice Secretary in ten years. Sacked from the Foreign Office following his disastrous handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, Raab is still deemed competent enough to oversee our justice system…
Is that it? The government’s ‘crime week’, coming a few weeks after Boris Johnson’s set-piece ‘levelling up’ speech, was meant to be the moment ‘normal politics’ resumed and the Conservatives reassured the voters that they understood their…
This week, the government, in one fell swoop, broke a manifesto promise and a pledge to the poorest people on our planet. It is a decision that will lead to the preventable death of children and dramatically weaken the UK’s influence…
What can Labour learn from Gareth Southgate? The softly spoken, patently decent manager of the England football team has become a figurehead of patriotism, as opposed to nationalism, and a mainstream, powerful advocate for players taking…
Labour has published its own green paper – a rare move from an opposition – with new measures to tackle violence and other crimes against women. The proposals include new offences such as prohibiting street harassment, making a misogyny a…
