Berlin is still the key
Sometimes politics and the outside world display a beautiful, if apparently pointless, synchronicity. As if trying to tell…
Rob Marchant
We are staring a lost European decade in the face. This has consequences for Labour
“Send in the clowns” ran the Economist’s front page last week, in a biting but wholly apt comment…
A downgraded government – but is that enough for Labour?
There can be no overstating the political and economic importance of last Thursday’s announcement from Moody’s ratings agency,…
Safe European home? If you’re Jewish, that ain’t necessarily so
The most chilling thing about Michael Dugher MP’s timely piece on “mainstream” anti-Semitism is that it needed to…
Why is the government letting faith schools interfere in the personal lives of their staff?
Yes, Tony Blair was wrong. The bolstering of faith schools and the consequent upsetting of the delicate existing…
2013: in Labour’s do-or-die year, it’s the strategy of hope versus the strategy of hopeful
The audacity of hope: it worked for Obama in 2008, and it is an important quality for an…
Stop the War Coalition’s comments about Newtown reveal a burning hatred of America
After the indescribable horror of the fourth mass shooting this year in the US, the world’s media and…
We might as well get used to the Royals – they’re not going anywhere, any time soon
If you’ve been living on the moon for the last twenty-four hours, you may just not know about…
Labour and Gaza: Hamas is not Palestine
In recent days, bombs have been dropping on Gaza while rockets have continued to rain on southern Israel, as…
News International – the gift to Labour that just keeps on giving
As David Cameron ponders the deeper strategic meaning of Romney’s defeat for his fractious party, in the back…
