A complex lesson for the French Socialists
Socialists down; Front National (FN) up: the far right creeps forward in France’s local elections. It would be…
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Together we can
Closer ties, not separation, can help provide solutions to problems in Scotland and England. I left Scottish Labour…
Labour needs to go bigger and bolder, not just to win but to govern too
There’s a letter in the Guardian today (posted below) which I, and a cross-section of “a coalition of thinktanks and…
Politics – the one blood sport you have to take part in
The perhaps apocryphal advice given by Tony Blair to David Miliband was (supposedly): keep smiling out in front……
The pay policy pressure cooker
As Fair Pay Fortnight begins, the unrelenting ferocity of this government’s assault on the pay of working people…
Out of touch and out of sight
So who did sign off that condescending and out-of-touch Twitter ad about beer and bingo? Well, it seems…
Narrowing polls have brought Labour’s anxiety out into the open
Earlier this week I asked why the Labour Party seemed so calm when there was so much to…
Why this disruption of our pensions will lead to another debt and housing bubble
Imagine if the government decided it was no longer going to tax you, and you were free to…
Rebalance the economy to workers and the regions
We heard this week from the Tories and Lib Dems how their economic plan is on track and…
Why “Powers for Purpose” is worth supporting
Two years ago, Unite, with our colleague unions and fellow delegates argued that the Labour Party – the…
