Jim Murphy

In the first of a new weekly Scottish Referendum column for LabourList, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary Jim Murphy, writes from the Western Isles and seaside towns leg of his #100Streets tour. When I started my…

In the summer of 2009 a strange thing happened: a Tory MEP helped start a national outpouring of love for the National Health Service (NHS). Although he didn’t do it deliberately. Daniel Hannan told Fox News that he wouldn’t wish the NHS on…

Whenever development hits the press, the Tory right hit the roof. Yesterday’s papers were full of reports that this government might finally give in to pressure and fulfil its commitment to legislate to spend 0.7% Gross National Income on…

Anyone who has read today’s papers will have seen the deeply troubling reports of what appear to be cries for help stitched into Primark clothing. Discounted dresses were found to have “degrading sweatshop conditions” and “forced to work…

I'm writing this from probably the smallest plane I ever have travelled on. Having just taken off from Glasgow airport on the way to Barra on the way to the second of my 100 meetings in 100 days campaign as part of my Better Together's 'No…

From its very first days back in 1930 football's World Cup has attracted it's causes and conundrums. There is a strange rhythm to it all. Its almost as if football and the global caravan that follows it only has the capacity to focus on one…

I've arrived in Lebanon for my first ever visit to the country. My immediate impressions are that it's wet, warm and thunderous. I've spent the day in the Bekaa Valley meeting Syrian refugees desperate to go back home. The families I was…

When we think about the crisis in Syria it’s only natural that we start with the immediate threats to life - violence, disease and hunger. But for Syrian children the problems don’t end there. As the conflict approaches the start of its…

Jim Murphy MP grew up in South Africa in the time of apartheid, he reflects on the life and impact of South Africa’s greatest son, Nelson Mandela. Songs, poems, plays and books have been written about him. Sadly but unavoidably it’s now…

The Philippines is a long way from home, and for many British families understandably it's not top of our every day list of priorities. In saying that, British people have been amongst the most generous in the world to the emergency appeal…

The normal thing to do when you are flying into a new city and you have a window seat on the plane is to look out at landmarks or the layout of the place your visiting. But earlier today there were sharp intakes of breath as we came in to…

Imagine if it had been us. Up to 10,000 dead, more than half a million displaced. Schools and hospitals gone, communities isolated. Sanitation destroyed and law and order breaking down as the starving struggle to find food. The Philippines…