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Whatever happens tomorrow, things have changed. If the United Kingdom endures, and I hope it does, relations between our nations will be recast. We are not one people. We will be forced to recognise what we were all along, as Gordon Brown…
Anyone who doesn’t live on a peculiarly disconnected desert island would recognise we’re living through a political crisis. The rise of UKIP and the success of the Yes campaign are merely the latest signs of a crisis not merely in politics…
'They viewed these girls as an astronomer would look through a telescope at planets." That's how MP Simon Danczuk brilliantly, savagely describes the attitude of social service bosses towards victims of abuse in his constituency of…
I’m envious of my Scottish friends. From my limited connection to politics north of the border, the debate between politicians seems a clash between rival empty words. A coalition of dramatically different parties, there are good reason why…
Britain’s history of failure in the Middle East is 150 years old. The presence of Britain in the region, first as a superpower, then as an ally of the United States, has been a continual source of chaos and instability. Throughout those…
Labour already is a party of small business. We have thousands of members who are self-employed or who work in businesses that employ a few people, some struggling, some thriving. I’m the son of one of them. But compared to the party’s…
98 years before the outbreak of the First World War, the Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz began writing his long book on military strategy, On War. Clausewitz’s argument was that every war should have a political purpose. Military…
It’s not just Ed. There’s something profoundly weird about our political class. Labour, LibDem and Tory, politicians seem to move in packs. They feel safe only they use the same ideas and language as the rest of the Westminster village…
Since being elected Prime Minister of India in May, Narendra Modi’s big idea has been to link every river in India into a massive system of irrigation channels and dams. It’s a deluded project of statist hubris, first dreamt up in the days…
Mohandas K. Gandhi is being used to sell fighter planes. This government imagines that sticking a statue of this advocate of non-violence on Parliament Square will persuade Indians to buy the instruments of war we make. In fact it looks…
‘After this, nothing happened’. That was how Plenty Coup, leader of the Native American Crow nation saw the world after the Buffalo had all been killed, words quoted by Jon Cruddas in his speech at the RSA last night. The crisis was so…
We have, at last, a real battle within the Labour party. It’s not between left and right. It’s about something far more important. It’s about the state of British politics, the nature of power in British society and, above all, whether…
