‘Why Labour must oppose the Three-Vodafone merger’
A merger between Vodafone UK and Three UK was announced in June. If the deal goes ahead, Vodafone…
John Spellar
From healthcare to immigration, Britain isn’t working under the Tories
Before Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1979, the Tories produced a devastating poster, which read: “LABOUR ISN’T WORKING.”…
Proportional representation? Bad tactics, bad strategy and bad for Britain
Australian Labor PM Paul Keating used to say that good policy is good politics. Since UK Labour’s battering…
Deliver, don’t dither. Labour must drop its obsession with constitutional issues
The pandemic has turned the world upside down in the ways we work and live, and many of…
Covid must be handled with effective risk management, not erratic risk avoidance
COBRA met this week for the first time in about four months. What took so long? This isn’t…
Predatory venture capitalists took over our care homes. This profiteering cannot continue
The shockingly high levels of deaths in our care homes appears to be one of the biggest scandals…
Tony Blair is wrong – Labour should have nothing to do with the Lib Dems
Back in the day, on the old London Labour Party executive, I used to say that my degree…
John Spellar: City short-termism cons the taxpayer and is bad for British business
Carillion’s collapse shows the need for strong regulators to prevent unsustainable businesses from leeching off taxpayer, writes John…
Spellar: The Tory right are not hostile to the NHS because it fails, but because it works
Owen Patterson’s call to “break the consensus surrounding the NHS”, in his recent speech at his own think-tank…
Eric Pickles’ proposals to suppress voter turnout are Trumpesque
The case of Lutfur Rahman and Tower Hamlets should never be allowed to happen again. But it was…
