May 5th will be tricky – but don’t forget how far we’ve come in just two years
Labour can win the next general election. On the morning of 13th December 2019, as the extent of…
Jake Richards
The Conservatives are disrespecting the institutions that make Britain great
Whenever travelling abroad, I am always struck by the reaction from those I meet upon finding out I…
The carefully drafted assisted dying bill would help many avoid unnecessary pain
Around the world, 200 million adults will soon be able to legally access medical assistance to die in…
We must make both the moral and the hard-headed case for our aid budget
This week, the government, in one fell swoop, broke a manifesto promise and a pledge to the poorest…
What are ‘ouster clauses’ – and why is the government approach dangerous?
The prominent legal commentator and blogger David Allen Green often says “constitutional law should be boring”, and it…
Technology should be part of Labour’s promise to renew our public services
The pandemic has forced us to change behaviours more quickly over the past year than in any equivalent…
They want a war over statues. I’d rather see a plan for rehabilitating offenders
The old phrase is that politicians ‘campaign in poetry but govern in prose’. The truth is that Boris…
Labour must be confident in making the case for the Human Rights Act
Just a few months after Labour’s 1997 landslide general election victory, the new government published a white paper…
Why won’t the government ensure the UK never turns a blind eye to genocide?
It is trite, but true, that the vast majority of politicians from across the spectrum go into politics…
Labour must accept the role played by personal responsibility in Covid failures
An intensive care doctor at the UCL hospital in central London, commenting on the rising infection rate, recently…
