Where I’ll be watching Thatcher’s funeral – and what I’ll be thinking
GQ asked me where I’d be watching Margaret Thatcher’s funeral today. Here’s what I told them: “I’ll be…
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The case for licensing bankers
If an incompetent doctor puts at risk the wellbeing of a patient, they could be struck off. If…
Leadership is about more than picking a fight with your party, Mr Blair
Last week Tony Blair made a major intervention that was taken – quite rightly – as an attack…
Labour needs to draw a line under Thatcherism – and Blairism
The harder sections of the media and the Conservative Party tried to make everyone like Baroness Thatcher, the…
Are these Labour’s least transparent (and most open to abuse) selections?
A week ago today, the Labour Party announced its candidates for next year’s European elections. Although the process…
The Thatcher-introduced settlement is now under pressure as never before
I was elected to Leeds City Council during the miners’ strike, perhaps the defining domestic event in her…
Thatcher’s legacy in the coalfields was devastation – and the bitterness is still felt today
By Dan Jarvis MP and Michael Dugher MP Much has been said and written this week about Margaret…
If the headlines are to be believed, young people have no place in public office
There’s no whitewashing the fact that Paris Brown said some pretty nasty things about immigrants and homosexuals when…
What is Margaret Thatcher’s economic legacy?
The reflections on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy this week have shown how difficult it remains to get the right…
Don’t close your ears just because it’s Tony
Tony Blair has a problem, partly of his own making. No matter what he says many people will…
