‘Labour’s personal attacks on Farage will backfire’
In the last couple of days, the Labour Party and the Conservatives have both posted attack ads aimed…
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‘Heathrow third runway is the wrong answer to the wrong question’
My long-standing opposition to expansion at Heathrow has been a cornerstone of my twenty years as the MP…
‘Five ways to bring rail fares down with public ownership’
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has said, “We’re going to wave goodbye to 30 years worth of inefficiency, waste,…
‘Why Labour must be focused on breaking Britain’s bottlenecks’
Three deep blockages stand in the way of this government changing Britain. Power and wealth are over-centralised in…
‘If we want people to believe in politics again, we must listen first’
Across the country we have seen political turmoil for the past decade with Brexit, the pandemic, the UK’s…
‘Palestine recognition is the first, not final, step to achieving a durable peace’
The renewed diplomatic momentum for a political pathway towards peace laid out by the UK, France and Canada…
‘Why the left should embrace air conditioning as part of climate action’
For the past few years, we have been seeing record-high summer temperatures, and this year has been no…
‘The Palestine Action ban risks being heavy-handed and counterproductive’
The Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action (PA) as a terrorist organisation has caused a lot of…
‘The most underrated influence on today’s Labour government? Anthony Crosland’
A few months ago I had the pleasure of watching Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s Gang of Three,…
‘To end austerity, wealth taxes are a moral and economic necessity’
The UK is at a crossroads. This government inherited the dire legacy of a lost decade of cuts,…
