How do you build a majority against secret tribunals for multinationals in the European Parliament?
Investor-State Dispute Settlements, or ISDS, are special tribunals included in trade deals for investors to seek redress from…
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What could a post-Miliband policy agenda look like?
Labour’s electoral disaster is rightly leading to a difficult discussion about what went wrong, the future of the…
Setting the record straight over Unite’s position in Scotland
In a few weeks’ time, Jim Murphy will submit his ideas on how to revive Labour’s fortunes in…
Only losers make concession speeches
Yes: it is time to concede and move on. Inequality doesn’t matter, social democracy is finished, the Conservatives…
Memo to the new leader: Britain’s real middle
In September 2010 I sent an open memo on the real ‘middle Britain’ to each of Labour’s then…
David Goodhart is wrong: it’s not Labour activists who have become disconnected with the country
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party…
Londoners need us to come together to avert this disaster
What do Londoners need? They need a solution to the housing crisis. But instead, they are getting a…
We need more working class people in our party at every level
For the right reasons the Labour Party has worked to improve gender balance and ethnic diversity amongst its…
Labour has a self-inflicted gene pool problem
The Labour leadership hopefuls represent what Diane Abbott last week called a ‘spadocracy’. Three of the four declared…
Neither the Tories or the SNP are effectively dealing with FOBTs
As the last Parliament closed, Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) remained one of the “barnacles” on the Tory…
