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Writing in 1895, Keir Hardie protested that the Liberal Party of the era was too obsessed with electoral reform. Though he said that universal suffrage was a cause “dear to the heart” of the Labour movement, he feared that its immediate…
“It would be much better if the foreigners be kept out.” So said Keir Hardie. This came as Hardie vented his complaints about Lithuanian workers who had come to Scotland in the late 1800s to take up work in the mines of Lanarkshire and West…
Several years ago Michael Sandel delivered his excellent Reith Lecture and looked at the relationship between morality and politics, more specifically the interaction between religiously inspired morality and politics. He argued, correctly…
Since its earliest days Labour has been an internationalist party and proud of it, too. From Keir Hardy and Harold Wilson to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, those who shaped Labour’s vision in the 20th and early 21st Century regarded the fight…
Keir Hardie was first elected to Parliament in 1895 and was integral to the founding of the Labour Representation Committee (later the Labour Party) in 1900, becoming its first leader in 1906. On April 11th 1914 - exactly one hundred years…
"A Lib Dem and a Tory are stood on the edge of a cliff," starts the old joke, "Who do you push first?" Tasteless? Probably, but hardly worth covering a child's ears over. Funny? I plead subjectivity, your honour. Yet it's still around after…
Ed Miliband was speaking (without notes) this afternoon at the crucial Scottish Labour conference. With only 180 days until the Scottish Independence referendum, here's what the Labour Leader had to say: Can I start by saying what a…
Thank you. I want to thank all of you - local parties, trade unions, socialist societies - for being part of our discussions on party reform. Some people worried this debate would simply cause deep division and discord. But we have shown…
Special conference is now just a matter of hours away, and Ed Miliband will be expecting his proposed party reforms to pass comfortably. That doesn't mean he doesn't want to appeal to delegates to back him, and sell the package to the…
Scottish independence reared its head at my son’s fifth birthday party last Sunday. It was one of the party goers’ parents, rather than one of the five year-olds. My kids are not that precocious. The parent in question asked why the English…
