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Politics is a closed shop. This is one of the messages of the current Labour leadership contest, in which some potential Labour supporters have been out priced from voting. Non-members or members who joined after January were made to pay…
The Iraq War was not about hard decisions; it was about bad decisions. The Chilcot Inquiry has clarified that much. The invasion was unnecessary at the time, the lack of post-war planning was disastrous and undeterred by facts Tony Blair…
UK politics is gripped by anti-immigration sentiment based on lies, fear and xenophobia. Until recently, too few politicians robustly challenged this hate-filled divisive narrative; implicitly or explicitly telling people that this country…
Whether the UK leaves the EU or not, this country’s problems won’t be solved by clamping down on immigration. Certain Labour politicians calling for “controls” on EU migration should think twice. It’s a callous strategy, which ignores…
The average MP: a white man aged 51, whose previous job was, most likely, in politics. No matter how you look at it, British parliament isn’t representative and although we’re making glacial progress in some areas – not least gender and…
One week he’s suggesting Sadiq Khan has links with terrorists, the next he’s standing next to the new London Mayor and lauding him as a “proud Muslim”. David Cameron’s duplicitousness knows no bounds, not when there’s a popular vote to be…
Repeating “you’re wrong” has never been a good way to win an argument. Yesterday anti-Corbyn Labour MPs were reminded of that. In a poll for The Times, 64 per cent of those eligible said they would vote for Jeremy Corbyn if there was…
If there’s one Conservative we should all have time for, it’s Sayeeda Warsi. There’s a lot we don’t agree on but she’s often worth listening to. Her disappointment with the Conservative’s mayoral campaign is a case in point: “this isn’t the…
The fallout from the Panama Papers has to be about more than David Cameron and criticising the wealthy. The leaked documents that lifted the lid on a teeming mass of slippery backhand deals that benefit the super-rich and disadvantage…
Women will be hit six times harder than men by George Osborne’s budget. A trend that began in 2010 is only getting worse: the Government is making life more difficult for women. You wouldn’t know this depressingly gendered reality of Tory…
The Government’s cuts are dividing society because, in Iain Duncan Smith’s words, they’re “narrowly focused on getting the deficit down”. We are not “all in this together”. The cracks Duncan Smith has created in his own party through…
When you have no ideas of your own, you have to go on the attack. That’s the message we can take from mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith. His recent campaign literature speaks of a politician who sees minority ethnic people as nothing but…
