‘If Labour wants to end child poverty, it must improve access to childcare’
Last month, as the PM’s conference speech gained momentum, so too did my phone. It buzzed with texts…
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‘Labour won being cautious – but Brits are impatient for radical change’
Caution won Labour a General Election but steady as she goes is no longer enough. It has been…
Paul Nowak Column: ‘Fixing Britain’s migration system starts with fairness, compassion and common sense’
Whenever migration is leading the news – as it has been much of this week – I think…
‘PFI was a disaster — Labour mustn’t repeat it’
PFI – the Private Finance Initiative – is a private finance model which was hugely popular under the…
‘The politics of security – when ‘for the many’ politics becomes uncomfortable for Labour’
I will never forget something a Labour voter in a very safe Tory seat told me once soon…
‘From signals to system change: we need practical reforms that could cut asylum backlogs and end hotel use’
How important is signalling in politics? The Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday of “the most sweeping reforms to tackle…
‘Islamophobia is escalating while action stalls’
November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month. This year it coincided with Zohran Mamdani’s historic election as New York’s first…
‘Our coalition is fracturing. We can rebuild it by making life affordable again’
We have lost around half of the voters who supported us last July. Voters are leaving us because…
‘Protest politics is failing London – Labour is not’
Somewhere in Lewisham this morning, a child woke up in temporary accommodation. They got ready for school in…
‘Bread, circuses, and polling errors: Are we truly measuring what matters?’
The most important part of the body politic is the stomach. The eyes can be distracted, the ears…
