Jack Tunmore Articles

In the summer of 1951 an 11-year-old East German boy returned home to find that his father had disappeared without a trace. Two years later it transpired that he had been taken to a Siberian Gulag, and it was only in 1955 after four years of torture and...

Six months after he became leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband visited Kent and declared: ‘We are fighting incredibly hard across the south east because I think it is important there are no “no go” zones.’ Kent needs to be much more than this for Labour; if we are...

I arrived in Berlin last week to volunteer for the SPD’s election campaign expecting two things. The first was that the campaign would, by and large, mirror my experience of election canvassing in the UK. Armed with our trusty voter identification records, we would...

A ruling coalition of two parties that can barely stand one another; a liberal party fearing annihilation at the next election; constant speculation that it could collapse at any moment … perhaps Germany is not so different from the UK after all. Provided Angela...