Labour’s NHS plans should reflect real life not vague values
‘The frequency of talk about values is matched by a corresponding vagueness of the concept’ a famous German…
Jon Wilson
Labour needs a plan, not just moral outrage
Sometimes I wonder at how well Labour is doing despite everything. With growing inequality and despair even among…
Taxing unearned assets: the argument for a mansion tax
The Conservative case against Labour for the next election is clear. Taking advantage of the return to economic…
Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo
In the hours after the murder of 10 journalists and 2 police officers in Paris, my inbox has…
There’s more to Higher Education than the REF
Yesterday, British universities were in a spin. The result of six years of stress and anxiety, management pressure…
Poor coordination, broken models: why even traffic is political
I am writing this column sitting in a traffic jam in Dhaka, the car-crammed capital city of Bangladesh.…
Politics after the Big Machine
Jawarharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of independent India was giving a speech in a bus factory. Nehru’s topic…
Our defeat last night shows Labour’s forgetting the politics of inclusion and compromise
There was a moment when we could have won Rochester and Strood. Talking on doorsteps there a month…
How to challenge UKIP’s vision of England
I’d love to see a head-to head debate between Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage. Forget the Tories, with…
We made this crisis
Crisis? Of course there’s a bloody crisis. Most people in Britain feel squeezed and hassled, working harder for…
