I spent far too much of Wednesday watching the Parliament Channel. It brought back memories of when members of...
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Dramatic, dangerous and historic times
We are living through dramatic, dangerous and historic times. Last night’s vote to extend airstrikes to terrorist...
Labour can reach out for Europe
The Labour party has launched its campaign to stay in the European Union. In Birmingham, Alan Johnson, who is leading...
Osborne economics
George Osborne may duck and dive, but over the last couple of years he has proven that he just doesn’t get it. He has...
Resetting the frame
Despite recent successes, Labour remains haunted by the perception of being the high-spending party. Though our...
Silent voices
In the recent furore surrounding the BBC’s internal failings around coverage of abuse allegations, the original...
Building inequality into the system
Liberal Democrat Don Foster, the communities minister, recently announced: ‘I want to see a simpler set of housing...
Raising the game
Amazon et al must stump up and pay their fair share of tax on the huge sales they make here in the UK. Leona...
Punching beneath our weight
The key idea behind the ‘One Nation’ slogan is that, to address the nation’s problems, we need to bring people...
Smarter HIV prevention in the UK
World AIDS Day. For many it will conjure image of young men in the 1980s dying helpless, horrible deaths in hospital...
‘Something-for-something Britain’
It was a heck of a year. 1942 wasn’t the beginning of the end. But it was, as Churchill said, the end of the...
Remaking Britain’s institutions
Another day, another crisis. In the wake of the Savile affair, the BBC has joined a long line of British public...