We must make both the moral and the hard-headed case for our aid budget
This week, the government, in one fell swoop, broke a manifesto promise and a pledge to the poorest…
Jake Richards
What can Labour learn from Gareth Southgate’s letter to England?
What can Labour learn from Gareth Southgate? The softly spoken, patently decent manager of the England football team…
Planning to tackle violence against women? Let’s talk about our prisons
Labour has published its own green paper – a rare move from an opposition – with new measures…
What are ‘ouster clauses’ – and why is the government approach dangerous?
The prominent legal commentator and blogger David Allen Green often says “constitutional law should be boring”, and it…
Technology should be part of Labour’s promise to renew our public services
The pandemic has forced us to change behaviours more quickly over the past year than in any equivalent…
They want a war over statues. I’d rather see a plan for rehabilitating offenders
The old phrase is that politicians ‘campaign in poetry but govern in prose’. The truth is that Boris…
Labour must be confident in making the case for the Human Rights Act
Just a few months after Labour’s 1997 landslide general election victory, the new government published a white paper…
Constitutional reform is not sexy, but it’s key to building a progressive agenda
John Spellar MP recently wrote a piece for LabourList complaining about “constitution-mongering”. It began with the claim that…
Why won’t the government ensure the UK never turns a blind eye to genocide?
It is trite, but true, that the vast majority of politicians from across the spectrum go into politics…
Tory cuts, not just Covid, led to the courts backlog now denying people justice
An eminent criminal solicitor recently tweeted a story of a client, born in 2001, who had allegedly committed…
