Theresa May triggers article 50, Jeremy Corbyn's abysmal polling in London and the NHS – Progress director Richard...
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The Last Word Articles
The Last Word: Tragedy in Westminster
An attack on the heart of British democracy, Aaron Bastani's #fakenews and Jon Lansman's secret plot – Progress...
The Last Word: May in meltdown
May's weakness exposed, leadership in local government and an impressive start for Open Labour – Progress director...
Six months till the general election
During conference season I chaired a series of fringe meetings held by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and...
Murphy is essential to a Miliband majority
Sir Walter Scott asked: ‘Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,/ ‘Who never to himself hath said’, / ‘This is my...
Gough Whitlam, big ideas and a plan to execute them
Gough Whitlam died this week. In Britain he was probably known for the fact that his Labor government was outrageously...
The five stages of loss and grief
Three cheers for Lord Reith. Not simply for the BBC, though a smile might have passed his lips when he saw the...
For fox sake
Last night I received an email from the Labour party. It was about foxhunting. The issue of the day yesterday. My only...
Scotland is Labour still
There’s a rather odd analysis around that Labour is acing a wipeout in Scotland at the next general election. It is...
In defence of New Labour
I, for one, was grateful that Ed Miliband didn't read the whole speech that the office intern mistakenly loaded on the...
Five things we learned during the referendum
Five things we learned during the independence referendum 1. People are interested in politics When a notoriously...
The world goes on despite Scotland
Brutal conflict. Borders in dispute. Break-up. History. Sovereignty. It’s all happening. Now, I don’t mean Scotland....