With Gaza, it is time Ed Miliband seized the moment on British foreign policy
Four years after becoming leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband has yet to offer his vision for…
Russia
Douglas Alexander calls for stronger sanctions against Russia
With escalating tensions between Russia and the Ukraine, in particular following the shooting down of flight MH17, shadow…
How Putin shows the same ‘maskirovka’ as his own soldiers
Yesterday in the European Parliament the EU Commissioner at the heart of the Ukraine crisis told MEPs that the…
A more isolationist Britain would end up repeating the mistakes of Rwanda 20 years ago
20 years ago this week, a genocide began in Rwanda that killed over 800,000 people. It took only…
Europe lacks the energy to act in Crimea
Today, the European Council will sit down and discuss two things, the Crimea crisis and the EU energy policy.…
Labour call for Russian MPs to be suspended from Socialist group on Council of Europe
Labour has joined calls today for Russian MPs to be removed from political groupings on the Parliamentary Assembly…
If Miliband wants to be PM, he’ll need to answer the “Putin question”
Sometimes in politics you’re really fortunate with events and timing, and sometimes you work incredibly hard to achieve…
Labour MEP cuts up his Visa card in protest over Olympics sponsorship
Michael Cashman – MEP for the West Midlands, former Chair of Labour’s NEC and prominent gay rights activist…
Sochi – to boycott, or not to boycott?
This week UKIP Oxfordshire councilor David Silvester claimed that the devastating flooding across the UK was divine retribution…
Cameron should raise the issue of LGBT rights with Putin at the G20
With the passing of a federal law in Russia to ban the ‘promotion of nontraditional sexual orientations to…
