England expects a strategy for improving all its schools
Clement Attlee’s first Minister for Education, Ellen Wilkinson, once said that: “It is important not to make plans…
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Why British politics is going through its most turbulent time in modern history
If UKIP win the European elections next month, it will be the first time in a hundred years…
Unite’s priority is a Labour victory
I read with interest Luke Akehurst’s comments on my recent interviews regarding a new “Workers’ Party”. His concerns…
Faith and politics is a challenge for Labour too
Several years ago Michael Sandel delivered his excellent Reith Lecture and looked at the relationship between morality and…
Why the Tory badger cull is inhumane and ineffective
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again…
Who killed interventionism?
Tony Blair’s recent speech to Bloomberg in London has reawakened the time-honoured debate about interventionism, and the extent…
Nuclear chance for Labour
This week in New York the world’s nuclear, and avowedly non-nuclear states will be meeting at the UN one…
Miliband is going big on the TV debates because he thinks he’ll win them
In an article in the Radio Times (not often a political battleground), Ed Miliband has thrown d0wn the…
Could we be witnessing the death of the Conservative Party?
With all the hype about UKIP people seem to be missing the real – though linked – story…
What is Labour’s working class problem?
The Times front page this morning runs (£) with a quote from Labour peer Maurice Glasman saying the party…
