Corbyn’s speech promised a kinder politics but it also set out a few red lines
Jeremy Corbyn began conference week in Brighton joking about the size of his marrow, yesterday he talked about…
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Alan Johnson is right – it is clear that leaving the EU would be a disaster
On the left and right of British politics, there has been much speculation about Labour’s position on Europe…
Labour looked over the brink this weekend then took a step back
Labour looked over the brink this weekend then took a step back. If there had been a decision…
Our new economics will bring sustainable, progressive growth
A new politics needs a new economics which was the message from the speech by Shadow Chancellor John…
We need an investigation into Osborne’s plans for nuclear power stations
Yesterday I wrote to Meg Hillier, the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee asking her and the committee…
The EU referendum is the biggest political decision in a generation
If reports are to be believed, the Tory Party have been trying to rebrand themselves “The Workers’ Party”.…
Osborne’s cruel joke on manufacturing
During the eighties our industrial base was decimated. Margaret Thatcher in pursuit of new-liberal economics and her attacks…
We need a retirement system that recognises inequalities
Earlier this year, during one of my regular door knocks, I called at a house and the door…
Time for a new tune
Nostalgia is to modernising politics, what rust is to iron. Corrosive. Modernisers in the Labour Party have been…
“Let the wild rumpus start!”
Delegates to the Labour Party conference in Brighton were blinking in unseasonably hot late September sunshine yesterday afternoon.…
