Workers and businesses need a real industrial strategy, not a bank with no money and a workplace with few rights
For a man who said that pure laissez-faire economics does not work, Vince Cable’s recent proposals for a…
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These elections are beyond farcical – ANOTHER PCC candidate is forced to step down
First there was the ridiculous case of Bob Ashford, who had Whitehall security clearance, but wasn’t able to…
Labour should back the Lib Dems on 2030 targets for clean power
The Financial Times reports that a coalition row over energy policy has “burst back into the open” as…
Time to take responsibility for our housing need
To have or have not: taking responsibility for tomorrow’s affordable homes today launched this week is a call to…
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…
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…
