Steve Cockburn Articles

What a difference a month makes. One day immigration is just the talk of the rabid right, the next it is the holy grail of every potential Labour leader seeking an “honest debate” to “reconnect” with lost communities.

The Lib Dems have not fought the corner of international development – they are absent from DfID and big ideas such as the Robin Hood Tax have been dropped

Could the ‘Invitation to Join the Government of Britain’ ever be extended to include ‘The Right Honourable Member for the Global South’? Unlikely maybe, but perhaps it should.

If ever asked to explain the value of politics and popular campaigning in improving people’s welfare, two historical examples come to mind – the mass campaign to abolish the slave trade and, less glamourously, the introduction of London’s Victorian sewers.