With only months to go till the next election, all the major parties have been setting out their vision and ideas for...
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Hobbesian Britain?
With only months to go till the next election, all the major parties have been setting out their vision and ideas for...
Hobbesian Britain?
With only months to go till the next election, all the major parties have been setting out their vision and ideas for...
Pre-budget report: Reaction
The measures in Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report today, while welcome, do not go far enough to meet the...
Pre-budget report: Reaction
I did not get to watch the pre-budget report today as I was in UNISON, my union’s, National Executive hearing...
Pre-budget report: Reaction
Deficit reductionThe UK is the only G20 economy still in recession, yet it will also be one of the first to start...
Pre-budget report: Reaction
The PBR needed to focus on growth and getting the deficit down. Today Darling did that. Here are my highlights:Support...
Progress� autumn lecture series: Jack Straw
In 1993, Blackburn Labour party published a pamphlet I had written on the need for Labour to adopt a new set of...
Pearls among swine
Best Seat in the House: The Wit and Parliamentary Chronicles of Frank JohnsonFrank JohnsonJR Books 272pp£18.99...
Service Charge
The first chapter in this week's Smarter Government paper is about the role of citizens and civic society in helping...
Risky business
The weakest link in capitalism as practiced today in the US, UK and other but not all countries, is that the interest...
War of words
When historians look at the opprobrium heaped on Gordon Brown this year over the conduct of the Afghan war, I think...