Tuesday review Articles

It was when Theresa May became a cabinet minister that I really realised that David Cameron didn’t share my values. It was the night that the coalition was formed, and, as I often do when things haven’t gone my way, I turned to the bottle. Some friends and I headed to...

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...

My maternal grandfather once tried to discourage my grandmother from coming to this country by telling her that the end of the apartheid regime was just around the corner. That was in 1966. Which puts my claim this time last year that 'the coalition might last to the...

In the end, what it really comes down to is what you think the role of ordinary trade unionists should be in the Labour party: should they be active and engaged, or should they exist to be invoked in favour of arguments you've already lost? On the ‘active and engaged’...