Can Labour ever win again in Scotland?
Baroness Helena Kennedy chaired this week’s meeting of Labour for the Common Good group in Parliament – this…
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A beginner’s guide to the Boundary Review
2016 may be a year of political surprises but one event is certain. In the autumn (and probably…
Hard choices are hard – the politics of Labour’s Trident battle
I’m sometimes asked why I write so scathingly on occasion of Labour and the left. Why I can’t just…
The half million or the nine million?
Labour has a mountain to climb to win a majority in 2020. On Saturday, at the Fabian New…
Now is the time to make the case for a progressive Europe
Last week, Jeremy Corbyn appointed Pat Glass as Labour’s new Shadow Europe Minister, who has been the co-chair of…
PMQs Verdict: Cameron bashed over housing crisis, but Hunt and Osborne breathe sigh of relief
Somewhere, Jeremy Hunt is wringing out the sweat from the handkerchief he used to mop his brow during…
Support for the junior doctors’ strike showed there are more pressing issues than Labour infighting
Yesterday junior doctors went on strike for the first time in four decades, and the Labour Party came…
The search for electability is much more than a principle-free hunt for votes
In recent months within Labour the statement “You’re only doing that to be electable”, or some variant, has…
It feels like there are two Labour Parties – but not in the way you think
There seem to be two Labour Parties at the moment. There’s the rather pleasant one I am a…
We can no longer afford such a superficial engagement to community organising
The Labour Party has two fundamental problems. Well, it has many, but there’s two that relate to one…
