The signals and the noise: the next election remains wide open
David Cameron is arguably in a worse position than Jesus was on the eve of the crucifixion. Christ…
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Labour can change the false narrative with a reality check
A false narrative has developed about Labour that must be rejected comprehensively by a party aiming to govern…
It’s Ukip that offends working class sentiment
After this week’s Twitter row at the Rochester by-election, I am using my keynote speech to the Labour East Regional…
Join the 1,000 – building a movement for Labour’s future in Scotland
Last Tuesday I stopped by a Team Findlay phone bank in Glasgow. I was expecting to see a…
We must continue our support for Nigeria’s government in their efforts to bring the kidnapped schoolgirls home
On 14th April, more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok, in north-eastern Nigeria, by the Islamist terrorist…
5 education pledges I want to see from the Labour Party
Up to now, Miliband has toyed at the edges of education, with no real commitment to how it…
Here’s our opportunity: the policies people want are real Labour policies
There are a couple of very basic facts that underpin Scottish politics at the moment. Simply put, people…
Carswell, Farage and Reckless – stock brokers and merchant bankers, not champions of the working class
We knew Mark Reckless had a brass neck. You’d have to have one to show your face again…
Our defeat last night shows Labour’s forgetting the politics of inclusion and compromise
There was a moment when we could have won Rochester and Strood. Talking on doorsteps there a month…
UKIP’s Reckless win is a disaster for Cameron – but it was a painful night for Labour too
It was another long night waiting for the results to come in from Rochester and Strood, but when…
