Liam Byrne: The Tories can stage their festivals but cannot escape their history
This week’s Boris and Theresa show, a ludicrous clash of charisma versus cardboard, is far more than a…
Liam Byrne MP
Liam Byrne: Whether you love or loathe Alan Sugar, Britain needs its entrepreneurs to succeed
Lord Sugar has his work cut out. The brusque business star of TV’s The Apprentice ain’t everyone’s…
Time to refresh fraternity – but sentimentality won’t save Labour
Jonathan Rutherford, as so often, puts his finger firmly on the Labour dilemma: What does Labour stand for…
Healey showed what guts it took to be a Common Sense Chancellor
There’s a certain art to be Chancellor of the Exchequer during the good times. It’s a time to…
These three hard truths are the key to Labour winning again
Though it pains me to say, the 2015 election results were a landmark. They prove definitively, once and…
The inescapable truth is: unless we grow smarter we’ll grow poorer
One Nation Labour is at it’s very core as it must be: a project of modernisation. To fit…
Time to start backing and stop attacking our young people
George Osborne has badly misjudged the mood. There is little market for his Narnia-like politics of always winter…
Labour’s new way forward for higher education
At 3.50pm on Friday 16 October 1964, Harold Wilson’s office took the call from the Queen’s Private Secretary,…
David Willetts doesn’t get it – we should be doing more to support disabled students, not less
The huge expansion of higher education under Labour in the 1960s was the big reform that meant people…
We need to strengthen British science – because British science will strengthen Britain
During last month’s local elections, I saw first-hand the concern people have about the future. Like 50 years…
