Voters want electoral reform, but split on what system to switch to – poll finds
Voters want to see a change in the voting system, but are unsure what it should be changed…
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Why yesterday’s letter to the Guardian was a mistake
Well this is a tricky one. Some of my best friends in politics – including the editor of…
Labour has an ambitious and realistic vision for UK defence
UK Defence policy is at a crossroads: UK Service Personnel will have withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end…
A complex lesson for the French Socialists
Socialists down; Front National (FN) up: the far right creeps forward in France’s local elections. It would be…
Labour braced for as many as 20 ‘welfare cap’ rebels on Wednesday
Labour insiders have confirmed today that the party are anticipating a rebelling on Wednesday over plans – confirmed…
Together we can
Closer ties, not separation, can help provide solutions to problems in Scotland and England. I left Scottish Labour…
Labour needs to go bigger and bolder, not just to win but to govern too
There’s a letter in the Guardian today (posted below) which I, and a cross-section of “a coalition of thinktanks and…
Politics – the one blood sport you have to take part in
The perhaps apocryphal advice given by Tony Blair to David Miliband was (supposedly): keep smiling out in front……
The pay policy pressure cooker
As Fair Pay Fortnight begins, the unrelenting ferocity of this government’s assault on the pay of working people…
Out of touch and out of sight
So who did sign off that condescending and out-of-touch Twitter ad about beer and bingo? Well, it seems…
Narrowing polls have brought Labour’s anxiety out into the open
Earlier this week I asked why the Labour Party seemed so calm when there was so much to…
