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A recent poll showed marked Eurosceptic shift in the wake of the Paris attacks, and after the United Kingdom Independence party and its allies used the refugee crisis to use fear on immigration as part of their case for Brexit. Between now and the referendum,...

We cannot hide in the futile hope that Daesh will look elsewhere. Yet, many blame western policy rather than the autonomous agency of this fascism. Jeremy Corbyn argues that, 'It is the conflict in Syria and the consequences of the Iraq war which have created the...

Sometimes things happen in politics to question one’s very sanity, the rules by which you have always thought things operate. One such moment is Donald Trump’s rise in America. The night of president Obama’s re-election I wrote for Progress to say that surely now the...

Last week I was delighted to take part in a debate on climate change ahead of the vital UNFCC climate talks in Paris which start this week. In June, as shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change I led a debate on this topic on the first opposition day of...