Graeme Cooke Articles

It was a real pleasure to welcome Progress, IPPR, Nic Dakin MP and Caroline Flint MP to Lincoln last night as part of Progress' Purple Papers tour, discussing: Real Change for Britain: what should Labour’s priorities for government be? In Lincoln. As a party,...

A party ready for government needs to have a mature policy-making process.  It needs to be bold and realistic, and it needs to appreciate that there will be difficult challenges to face once it is elected. That is why the Purple Papers are a useful and distinct...

On a few occasions, as Steve Van Riel notes in The Purple Papers, the Labour government did suggest people should pay more for better public services. When it was a rise in national insurance for the health service, this was largely popular. When it was a levy on...

In the United States, an election already defined by the American right’s increasingly ludicrous attacks on the forces of reality took a turn for the worse this week, as the rightwing press and the conservative blogosphere levelled their ire against Nate Sliver, the...