John Spellar Articles

The drive through to Stoke Rochford Hall is stunning. Its grandeur was a little intimidating but I found the hall buzzing with energy and enthusiasm – so many young Labour activists! In this glorious place, redolent of the past, we debated the future. There were three...

Congratulations to Dave Watts, the new chair of the parliamentary Labour party, elected by 138 votes to 88 in a race against leftwinger John Cryer. Cryer, a Morgan-driving parliamentary retread, achieved an impressive vote for a candidate associated with the...

I recently wrote on the case for an elected mayor for Birmingham, since then the localism act has received royal assent which has confirmed the mayoral referendum for Birmingham and ten other cities in May 2012. Now I know there is a great debate about the respective...

I read with great interest John Carr’s fascinating account of the evolution of one part of the Labour soft left into first Kinnockites and then Blairites, guided by ideologues from the Euro-communist faction around Marxism Today and organised in the Labour...