Should Labour go further on football reform?
“As a party, Labour should take great pride in the fact that we initiated Supporters Direct, but now…
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Making Labour Policy: Who calls the tune?
Excellent election results and rising polls have brought a mood of unity and created space and time for…
Does the centre ground include people who live in market towns and rural areas?
The recent local election results show the start of Labour’s return to political representation for the many, while…
The Government’s credibility deficit on Defence spending
With a humiliating u-turn on the aircraft carrier programme completed, Philip Hammond took the brave step of claiming…
Tax is always going to be taxing
This week saw the publication of the Final Report of the 2020 Tax Commission, issued by the pressure…
In praise of Iain McNicol
Sometimes I can be a bit of a gloomy bugger. When it was all kicking off at Victoria…
Are the government panicking over police commissioners?
This weekend, a bumper mailing from head office will start to land on the doormats of thousands of…
On Boris and the myth of the BBC’s lefty bias
A couple of weeks ago I noted that Boris Johnson loathes BBC News, despite previously having said that…
“What’s wrong with the London Labour Party” – a response
When Mark Ferguson published his article nobody should have dismissed his remarks out of hand. It required a…
Don’t mention the War
Humiliation in Bradford confirms our party cannot move successfully into the future without first dealing with its past.…
