The Scottish Referendum: more than a month to go and anything could happen
Recent polling now has the Labour backed Better Together campaign winning amongst working class voters. That may surprise…
Jim Murphy
The boy from Banff played more like Brazil (circa 2014 not 1970)
Alex Salmond went into this week’s debate with a reputation as a charismatic favourite. A bit like Brazil…
Even the hecklers get soaked in this old style political tour
In the first of a new weekly Scottish Referendum column for LabourList, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary Jim…
The home of the NHS should be the champion of Universal Health Coverage abroad
In the summer of 2009 a strange thing happened: a Tory MEP helped start a national outpouring of…
Labour’s effort to enshrine UK aid in law is far from over
Whenever development hits the press, the Tory right hit the roof. Yesterday’s papers were full of reports that…
From Primark to prawns: we shouldn’t ignore workers’ rights and Labour won’t
Anyone who has read today’s papers will have seen the deeply troubling reports of what appear to be…
Me, a microphone and whoever turns up
I’m writing this from probably the smallest plane I ever have travelled on. Having just taken off from…
Unless FIFA acts I’ll be forever ashamed of the game that I love
From its very first days back in 1930 football’s World Cup has attracted it’s causes and conundrums. There…
The Syrian conflict is three years old, and things are bleak
I’ve arrived in Lebanon for my first ever visit to the country. My immediate impressions are that it’s…
Young Syrians shouldn’t be the lasting victims of this bloody war
When we think about the crisis in Syria it’s only natural that we start with the immediate threats…
