Adam Harrison Articles

A member of my local party, a pensioner, came up to me at a recent community festival, fuming. He was, and still is, extremely angry at the failure of the Labour party to regain power this year. His anger was not of the type I have seen much in the party. It was...

A growing murmur of complaint, in the SW1 postcode inhabited by many thinktanks, is that this is the most inward-looking election of recent times with the outside world never looking or feeling more unstable. This is especially so with the Transatlantic Trade and...

It’s time to talk assets Labour suffers, and, more importantly, the public suffer, when its welfare policy in power lacks clear defining strategic goals. For the Labour party these should normally be: to narrow inequality, to eliminate poverty, and to provide both a...

How long before we start hearing calls for devolution to ‘the south’? Perhaps sooner than we think. Labour’s ‘southern discomfort’ is a long-running difficulty which has re-emerged in recent years. But the recent establishment of the Southern Policy Centre, whose...