Karin Christiansen Articles

It has been a bit of rollercoaster ride being general secretary of the Co-operative party over the last three years. The troubles at the Co-operative Bank, the revelations about Paul Flowers and the resulting convulsions within the Co-operative Group have not been...

Members of the Co-operative group will vote this week on whether to break the historic link between the group and the Co-operative party. Breaking this link risks emasculating the co-operative movement and would be the second loss for progressive politics in as many...

Last December, in the middle of a bout of extreme weather that ironically saw the suspension of all rail services in Scotland, a dedicated group of Co-operative party members and transport experts met in a room in the Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh for the launch of...

The introduction to IPPR’s Condition of Britain report is incredibly clear about what the objective of the next Labour government ought to be: redistribution of power as well as wealth. Calling for a ‘a wider dispersion of power and responsibility across society’, the...