Independence only offers a progressive future if you try very hard to ignore the SNP’s policies
John Harris has chosen the week of Dr Who’s 50th Anniversary to fire up the Tardis and arrive…
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Are you loyal to Labour’s ideas? Or the institutions?
In a recent episode of Borgen, BBC Four’s Danish political drama, Birgitte Nyborg, that fictive paragon of principle,…
Time for a new deal with the water companies
In a panic, after Ed Miliband put the rising cost of water firmly on the political agenda, the…
Pay Day Loans – Credit where credit’s due
Sometimes in politics, you have to say “Credit where credit’s due”. And today on payday loans, that’s certainly…
Making policy in a different way
There is less than 18 months to go until the general election. Up and down the country we’re…
Good times never felt so good
I don’t think I realised, during 1992, how much people would still be going on about 1992 20…
Earn or Learn: the case for a British Youth Allowance
The UK faces a daunting challenge in tackling youth unemployment and re-engaging a potentially ‘lost generation’ of young…
Cruelty has NEVER been “normal” in the NHS
In 1991 Gerald Ratner – Chief Executive of Ratner’s, the world’s biggest jeweler and one of the most…
The “thin blue line” is getting stretched ever thinner
In Government, Labour listened to local people and the Police and invested in neighbourhood policing, with local bobbies…
The government must not cave-in to the big energy companies (again)
On Thursday morning we woke up to the front page of The Sun newspaper proclaiming that the Prime…
