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By Jeremy Corbyn / @JeremyCorbyn Tuesday's papers led with the interesting story that the EU is concerned that Britain will be unable to lower its debt to the required 3% of GDP by 2014. This casts aspersions on the strategy of the…
The Paul Richards Column * UPDATE: At the end of the first paragraph of this piece, it is stated that John Harris of the Guardian "orbited" around Militant in the 1980s. We have now published a retraction of this, which is not right, and an…
The Paul Richards Column History will judge Michael Foot kindly, recalling his immense literary canon, the excoriation of the appeasers in the Conservative Party in 1940, his skill at speech-making, and his overwhelming niceness and…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter /@anthonypainter Dear friend, We now know, fewer of you guys applied for work permits to work in the Swiss financial sector last year than the year before. So it seems that despite all the hue…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter /@anthonypainter Dear friend, We now know, fewer of you guys applied for work permits to work in the Swiss financial sector last year than the year before. So it seems that despite all the hue…
The Paul Richards Column For the third day in a row the YouGov daily opinion poll tracker suggests that the Conservative lead over Labour is six points. Being behind the Tories is a disaster when we should be ahead this close to an…
The Paul Richards Column I have this friend. For the sake of the story, let us call her Jo. She has a conviction that at the very top of politics, there is no such thing as happenstance or coincidence. Every move is a calculation, there's a…
The Paul Richards column Winston Churchill was one of the biggest personalities of the twentieth century. He embraced public relations to project his image with a theatrical variety of costumes, , hats and props, from the ever-present Romeo…
By Colin Burgon MP With just 90 days to go before a general election, it is clear that David Cameron has still has not sealed the deal with the electorate. Labour still has every chance of winning. The Conservatives' support has diminished…
The Paul Richards column There is a simple explanation for the endemic trousering of cash by MPs through the various allowances and expenses schemes which have come to light like the woodlice under rotting timber. It is the one which our…
The Paul Richards column Three things are becoming clearer with each passing day about the Tories' election strategy. The first is that they intend to go into the election free from the usual burdens of a detailed policy programme…
The Paul Richards Column If you think the Cabinet is a crucible of intrigue and schemes, it is nothing compared to the bosses of Britain's armed services. The service chiefs make ministers look like amateurs when it comes to spinning and…
