The lashing of Raif Badawi highlights our dangerous and foolish relationship with Saudi Arabia
Nothing says more about the blindness of UK foreign policy than our secret ‘special relationship’ with Saudi Arabia.…
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Labour should rule out forming a coalition with any other party
A Coalition Government has not exactly been a happy experience for the British public, who voted in the…
Swiftboating 2015
The 2004 US Presidential Election gave rise to a new form of political terminology: ‘Swiftboating’. For those of…
Ed needs to give us a feel-good factor
The leader of the Labour Party showed up on Saturday and gave a good speech. It is worth…
7 things Labour can learn from British Future’s “year of uncertainty” report
British Future have a new report out today, called “The year of uncertainty” that seeks to discover where…
Cameron moves the Tories onto Labour’s cost of living turf – and Miliband senses an opportunity
Ed Miliband clearly thinks that David Cameron has made a huge mistake. That was the entire subtext of…
The SNP have proved they’re unfit to represent Scotland by collaborating with the Tories
On Tuesday in Westminster, George Osborne wasted a good deal of Parliamentary time on a political stunt. The…
A voter registration drive? It should have started three years ago (when Miliband said it would)
Later today Ed Miliband will speak in Sheffield, and make an appeal to Britain’s young voters. The location…
The drawn-out phoney war is over – here are the challenges for Miliband now
I think we can now conclude that Ed Miliband had a good Christmas break. In the first fortnight…
Why are we putting up with this?
A good friend of mine has written a lovely book for young children explaining how elections work. In…
