For once Scottish politics looks almost boring when compared to the tumultuous events of the last six weeks in the...
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Solving Britain’s early years crisis
In 1999, Labour pledged to eradicate child poverty by declaring that ‘no child be left behind’. Whilst in government,...
Education obsessives
Political parties, like people, have obsessions. They might be idiosyncratic or mainstream; based on evidence or a...
A defiant message
Ed Miliband gave his fightback speech in the Beveridge Hall in the Senate House at the unashamedly elite University of...
Never again
There were at least 1,400 victims of appalling sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013 in and around my constituency...
Hares, snares and badgers
In 1995 I was working as an organiser for the Young Labour movement, helping to put Tony Blair as opposition leader in...
Rise of the middle earner muddle
Today’s economy, while growing, is doing very little to push people out of low pay. Add to this the fact that,...
A good day for Ed to hit back on Europe
The contrast today could not be clearer. The Conservatives are hesitating over their promised vote on the European...
A lucrative gap in the market of reason
It might strike some in our more cynical political time as ironic to find that it is left to the current Labour...
Keep your cool
Usdaw’s Freedom From Fear campaign seeks to prevent violence, threats and abuse against shopworkers in the course of...
Fall of the Berlin Wall: would Poland suffer, again?
On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of...
The German left: still lost in the post-Wall wilderness
The left in Germany is still haunted by the fall of the Berlin Wall. The latest angst has been over a regional...