These people suffered simply from going to work – Labour will deliver them justice
I first heard about the terrible illness, mesothelioma, soon after I was elected an MP in 2010. A…
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Five questions Pfizer must answer
Ian Read, CEO of US pharma-giant Pfizer, steps before the Commons’ business select committee today and the science…
There’s still time to win, if Miliband can stop the rot
After 27 months without a Tory poll lead, one poll showing a Tory lead would have caused headaches…
10 things to bear in mind as we look at the Tory poll leads
Lord Ashcroft’s much-heralded new series of opinion polls couldn’t have started with more of a bang – a…
The memory of being moved to tears by a politician’s death
I was walking across the schoolyard in Edinburgh twenty years ago today when a friend stopped me to say that…
It’s time for Labour to set out a plan for rail reform – but how far are we willing to go?
The debate about Labour’s rail policy has never been higher on the agenda as ASLEF’s conference begins in…
Remembering John Smith
Today we mark two significant anniversaries: the twentieth anniversary of John Smith’s death and the fifteenth anniversary of the…
John Smith and the opportunity to serve
I had a soft spot for John Smith ever since one evening at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988…
In the battle of ideas, the Tories cannot win
A year from today we will know whether Labour has succeeded in winning back trust and power in just one…
Don’t look back in anger
“A new dawn has broken, has it not?” These were the words of Tony Blair, shortly after a…
