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The term "political education" often conjures in people a sense of trepidation, leading them to think of hierarchical and rigid processes that drift dangerously towards indoctrination — a word associated as much with the historic socialist…
The front line of our Labour movement is not the frontbench, it is the thousands of workers involved in industrial disputes across the country. While Labour is yet to form a government, there are still ways we can achieve some of Labour’s…
We must open up politics to those from every background. In June, I was proud to ask Pauline Kitching to be my election agent. We need more women, particularly those from normal backgrounds, in our politics – from our leaders to our…
Young Labour Conference: a national meet-up of some of our party’s most active, enthusiastic and passionate members under the age of 27, took place this weekend in Coventry. Much about what happened was noted in the media, much of the…
How do we get more young people involved in politics? This is a question I hear time and time again, and clearly one of many dilemmas facing the Conservative Party at the moment. Britain's chief scout Bear Grylls told delegates at…
In a context in which we have been long told that "we are all in it together", to ask for inclusive growth might not seem to be asking for very much. Who could object, after all, to the idea that any growth dividend arising from our…
One of the elements of Labour’s 2017 manifesto that made me cheer was the pledge to create four new bank holidays. But it was too often treated as a cherry on the cake, rather than the kernel of an idea that could help us transform the…
The Working Families Party was founded in 1998 by a group of progressive labor unions, community organizations and elected officials who had grown dissatisfied with the rightward drift of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton. The…
In 2014 I led Scottish Labour's positive campaign to protect jobs and livelihoods in the face of destructive nationalism. I will never apologise for my role in preventing the disaster of Scottish independence, and nobody in the Labour Party…
As Britain’s health service staggers towards the fearsome - or at least flu-ridden - British winter, a pernicious idea is quickly becoming a consensus view: The NHS is a bottomless pit. The logic is deceptively simple. Between 2010 and…
