Ed Miliband has made the right call on Iraq. Now he must make the right call on Syria too
Today Ed Miliband will stand in Parliament, and back the government’s plans for airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq.…
Syria
Labour on Iraq and Syria: No Contradiction
With the Cabinet meeting today and Parliament being recalled tomorrow, it looks as if British forces will again…
Exclusive LabourList polling shows public back Miliband’s “Plan for Britain’s Future” – and support his call for UN vote on Syria
Initial polling on Ed Miliband’s Conference speech shows that the public are largely supportive of Labour’s policy announcements.…
PMQs review: A sober tone reminds us of the important role our Parliament can play
The return from the summer break left no shortage of topics for the first Prime Minister’s Questions of…
If Blair were able to accept responsibility – his case would be far stronger
In America, they have something called the Pottery Barn Rule – “you broke it, you own it”. Over…
Who killed interventionism?
Tony Blair’s recent speech to Bloomberg in London has reawakened the time-honoured debate about interventionism, and the extent…
Blair says the West must be prepared to work with Putin and the Egyptian military
Tony Blair may not have been Prime Minister for nearly seven years now, but his views – particularly…
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…
The Syrian conflict is three years old, and things are bleak
I’ve arrived in Lebanon for my first ever visit to the country. My immediate impressions are that it’s…
Why intervention in Syria is necessary: a response to the critics
I said in my LabourList column last week that we will look back and regret not intervening in…
