Jack Ashley: An appreciation
Jack Ashley, who died on Saturday aged 89, was the kind of politician who gives politics a good…
Paul Richards
London: the limelight hogger
Andrew Adonis claims to be ‘deadly serious’ about his proposal to relocate the House of Lords to a…
Faith and the Labour Party
Roy Hattersley, in one of his many works, describes the moment in 1981 when he knew he would…
Ministers secretly want a tanker drivers strike
Calling a COBRA meeting has always been the last refuge of a desperate government. Gordon Brown used to…
Why ‘millions versus the millionaires’ isn’t the slogan we need
Sometimes it is hard to remember how distinct and different the instincts and reactions of Labour Party members…
The private sector always has a place in public services
My taxi driver the other morning, at around 6am on the way to the station, was telling me…
A tale of two campaigns
This is a tale of two campaigns. One succeeded this week in the most spectacular victory over Tory…
On Progress, the NEC and “dodgy dossiers”
It’s getting dirty. The contest for the constituency places on the national executive committee (NEC) of the Labour…
The rise of the independents
Ministers intended the police commissioner elections to throw up interesting independent figures, free from party affiliation or baggage.…
What does Borgen tell us about ourselves?
Birgitte Nyborg joins the pantheon of idealistic, smart, likeable politicians we all secretly wish we had instead of…
