The enormous challenges faced by Afghanistan will be laid bare before international leaders as they meet in London...
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Equality in the UK
The equalities and diversity debate has run aground. It is still grinding along the minorities groove. The language is...
Progress lecture series ‘New thinking for Britain’s next decade’
Thank you to Progress and the Co-operative party for hosting tonight's event.I'm delighted to be here today in the...
Ben Bradshaw lecture to Progress
When Labour we came into government in 1997, what did we inherit in the cultural, artistic and sporting fields? A...
Back to reality
In January 2008, I spent two weeks in Charleston, South Carolina during the Democratic primary election. One Saturday...
Fair admissions are key to school choice
A plan to crack down on parents lying about their home or religious circumstances as a way of gaining an advantage in...
What’s the alternative?
A heated electoral reform rally on the Brighton fringe showed that the manifesto commitment on the alternative vote...
Crisis and opportunity
Major economic crisis are also crises of economic policy. Orthodox policy fails to gain traction as banks collapse and...
Game change
Labour party conference went well compared to the prophesies of infighting and disarray that some predicted. Peter...
An equal balance
During the last 12 months the subject of female ageism in the arts and entertainment has hardly been out of the...
No stone unturned
It is a tough time to run for leader of Welsh Labour. I remember that during one of the first speeches I gave in the...
Drug policy
Aside from the humanist element, we also need to examine one of the oft-championed reasons for drug prohibition -...