School discipline: did we leave an open goal for the Tories?
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant The day before yesterday, I had an online discussion with a couple of…
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Libya: why do we still look at conflicts through 19th Century glasses?
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant To the intense surprise of everyone, the UN has finally voted for a…
Genocide, intervention and defending our indefensible institutions
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant There’s an odd, and slightly twisted argument doing the rounds at the moment.…
So, the alternative to Cameron’s vision: we’re offering what, exactly?
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant David Cameron has many failings, but he is patently not a racist. There…
Time, experience and normality: Labour’s real loss
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant There are – thankfully – some positives we can glean from all of…
The battle for Labour’s past: you are all right
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Last week was the week when we – finally – dealt with head-on…
Cameron’s Euro fig-leaves
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Yesterday’s main news was Italian President Silvio Berlusconi narrowly surviving a confidence vote…
Labour’s Catch-22
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant I wasn’t at the Policy Forum on Saturday to see Ed Miliband’s keynote…
The judge, the protesters and the EU’s useless foreign policy
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Last week’s newsreels of demonstrations in Madrid against the killing of at least…
End of a decade: Labour’s geography (and history) lesson
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant As we close the decade with Barack Obama licking his wounds after the…
