‘I worked for Thatcher and Brown. Here’s what Reeves’ growth plan is missing’
I worked for Gordon Brown as Chancellor and Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and, for me, two vital…
Barack Obama
UBI and a four-day week: ‘We should re-order how we work and live’
At the start of the pandemic, I wrote a piece about a four-day week and a universal basic…
It’s not just the left Chuka: the whole world is waking up to the universal basic income
Yesterday the former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna used a speech to the German British Forum to condemn the idea…
Democratic Socialists of America: The left establishment is incapable of mounting an effective attack against Trump
We’re organising a political revolution in the United States that mirrors the situation in Britain, though in the…
Liam Byrne: The Tories can stage their festivals but cannot escape their history
This week’s Boris and Theresa show, a ludicrous clash of charisma versus cardboard, is far more than a…
None of the other leadership contenders could have delivered this result – and now we must come together behind Corbyn
Like many people, I was wrong about Jeremy Corbyn. I voted for him in the first leadership ballot,…
Bean over Britain: Corbynista Cat Smith on defending a marginal, Brexit and how austerity is hitting the north
Cat Smith has probably the hardest task of any of the early backers of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership as…
As Trump is sworn in there are still reasons to retain the audacity of hope
On a day like today, where we see a tangerine misogynist who mocks the disabled and disenfranchised enter…
David Miliband: No prospect for peace without intervention of Obama and Trump
David Miliband has called on President Obama and Donald Trump to raise the pressure on Syria and the…
PM’s stone-faced silence leaves Farage and Boris as Britain’s insulting faces abroad, writes Labour’s top MEP
Today, as Theresa May meets the leaders of the US, Germany, France and Italy at a mini-summit in…
