A Labour Party for the whole union
Over the summer, the Olympics have prompted a few people to ask: why Team GB, and not Team…
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Talk of a General Strike? It’s the act of a movement all at sea
In 1919, the Triple Alliance of miners’, railway workers’ and transport workers’ trade unions, fashioned before the outbreak…
Are we set for a quiet conference this year? (And why “more votes at conference” isn’t the answer)
In a sense every Labour conference these days is a bit of a quiet conference, as there’s little…
Getting out of the Westminster bubble
‘First do no harm’, the much-misquoted principle underpinning the Hippocratic Oath, should equally apply to politicians but in…
What I saw on April 15th, 1989
15 April 1989. As a 14 year old boy I witnessed, from the safety of another stand, 96…
Forget PMQs – it seems so small now
My intention was to write a PMQs verdict today, as I do every week. My intention was to…
Hillsborough – In praise of Steve Rotheram, Andy Burnham, Maria Eagle and others
It has taken far, far too long, but today may finally bring the truth – and some justice…
The Tory and the confidence fairy
There’s a funny little Panglossian piece by Tory peer and former minister Michael Bates on ConservativeHome. As an…
Yaqoob for Labour? Unlikely – and that’s almost certainly for the best
Last night Respect leader Salma Yaqoob left George Galloway’s party. This followed in the wake of another high…
Either we all live in a decent Britain, or nobody does
Over the past few months, there has been a steady flow of stories about the rise in the…
