Month: May 2007 Articles

A six-year strategy

Mental illness has overtaken unemployment as our major social ill. The government must act

Is it possible to have fun at a Labour party event and change the world?

If it is to address the progressive deficit Labour must not turn its back on public service reform

Labour must identify clear dividing lines with the Tories to secure a fourth term

Many CLPs have a strong tradition of branch and GC meetings but in truth little direct contact with the local...

The Labour government ‘contributed almost nothing new or imaginative to the pool of ideas with which men seek to...

Ten years is a very short time in politics. But it is a very long time for those who have forgotten how far we have...

We’ve come a long way from the Philip Larkin approach to parenting. I’m paraphrasing his famous poem when I say that...

The evolution of Labour’s leadership election system owes as much to politics as to democracy. In 1979, Tony Benn’s...

The 1997 general election was the first in which Labour was women’s first-choice party – and the elections of 2001 and...

Historic anniversaries seem to be two-a-penny this spring: 10 years of Labour in power; 25 years since the Falklands...

Ever since his activities as a leading anti-apartheid campaigner, which led to a botched attempt by the South African...

Iran certainly miscalculated when it decided to kidnap 15 British sailors from Iraqi waters. Diplomacy is not the...

There is a well-established formula for an Alan Johnson profile. It is seemingly obligatory to mention his background,...

From the beginning of her campaign to be deputy leader, Harriet Harman has not been shy in articulating that the party...