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Like many Scots, each week I make the journey between Glasgow and London, and when I step off the train at Euston, I don’t feel like I'm in a foreign country. Yes – home is a long way away, but there's a reason we call these four countries…
This morning at the Royal Festival Hall (symbolism), in a speech sandwiched between the Jubilee (symbolism), the European Football Championships (symbolism) and the Olympics (über symbolism) Ed Miliband will speak on the subject of…
Today most people are looking back at the remarkable celebrations of the Jubilee weekend. It's right that we do, but today we should also reflect further back on those moments when our country's survival was secured. History, pride and…
“… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously…
Manufacturing has a unique place in British history. Since the days of the industrial revolution it has been the bedrock of the British economy and transformed the Britain of the 19th century into a 20th century economic superpower. While…
Some things in politics are technocratic. Some are ideological, some things are pragmatic, some are defensive, some optimistic. Some things are designed to make things better, some to make things less worse. The best advances combine the…
My call for civil disobedience around the time of the Olympic Games caused a media storm last week. Nick Clegg was “gobsmacked”. David Cameron called me “unpatriotic”. I couldn’t care less about their criticism. Clegg is busy dismantling…
The Guardian today highlights a little anxiety among the Shadow Cabinet about the difficulty in finding the right language for economic policies. Here are five suggestions to chew over that could resonate with the public and tilt the terms…
Donald Dewar presided over the creation of our Scottish Parliament and he was so proud of it – I will always remember the joy he had on July 1st 1999 at seeing it finally come to fruition. So it was both poignant and appropriate that the…
It’s been a good piece of short-term political entertainment watching the Tory Party rip itself apart on Europe tonight in the House of Commons. It’s good for the country to be reminded that a substantial slice of Tory backbench opinion are…
