Gay rights are human rights and we have the right to defend them everywhere. No ifs, no buts
Well, it had to come. Over the last year or two, the far left has shown its tolerance…
Rob Marchant
This time, Roger picked the wrong Wall. We should avoid the same mistake
We can – and should – criticise Israel’s government for its policy on settlements. We can criticise it…
The “Blairite conspiracy” narrative has not disappeared: it has just taken a breather
In “Voodoo Histories”, David Aaronovitch’s superb book on the tendency of our age towards conspiracy theories, he asserts…
Why we should stop trying to stop Page Three
A few days ago a piece on LabourList asked us to support a campaign to end Page Three…
Labour’s lead is slipping and its main rivals are still the Tories (remember them?)
The Independent’s poll of polls announced last week showed two things: the first is that Labour’s poll lead…
Young Turks: don’t stop now
The original, modest protest over the redevelopment of Istanbul’s Gezi Park has – largely due to a foolishly heavy-handed…
We do not stigmatise your country, Deputy Prime Minister. It is you and your party we find distasteful
Last Saturday a senior European politician wrote an article in the British press which made you want to…
1983: never again
Today is the thirtieth anniversary of what was arguably Labour’s postwar nadir: the 1983 election. If George Orwell…
If we are serious about government, we need to learn to play the expectations game better than this
Last weekend an Independent exclusive reported that Labour had made an in-principle decision not to stick to Tory…
North Korea is a timely reminder that the world is still dangerous
It is a measure of the sometimes spectacular insularity of British politics that the world can be at…
