Section: Web exclusive Articles

As someone who has led two very different organisations – a college and a council – I have some experience of leadership. I know that watching somebody else lead is quite different to leading yourself. It is much easier to know what someone else should do and be a...

The Suicide of Britain. Shocking as this sounds, this was the title of an op-ed piece in the New York Times two days after the general election. The article warned that the forces of nationalism were now on the brink of overwhelming the 300-year-old union. It was not...

Restoring Labour’s reputation for economic competence – or perhaps I should say resuscitating or even raising it from the dead – has to be the number one task for whoever becomes its new leader.  It may sound, and it may well be, a lot less sexy than, say, holding...

Something very special happened on election night in Brighton and Hove – one of Britain’s most creative and staunchly independent minded cities. As our worst fears came to be realised – following that night’s shocking exit poll – Hove bucked the national trend and...