development Articles

Why does international development matter? This is a question I’ve thought about before in my life, so when Ed Miliband kindly asked me to join Jim Murphy, Gavin Shuker and Ray Collins in the shadow international development team last week, it was an exciting chance...

Technology is involving entrepreneurs in development Cherie Blair —‘When we first spoke on the phone, I was nervous. More nervous than at an interview, more nervous than when presenting at a conference. More nervous even than when I had to sing at the school play aged...

Margaret Hodge deserves real recognition for the way that she has led the political charge on tax dodging.  Her forensic questioning of Starbucks, Google and Amazon executives has left many of us agog as the companies make a whole range of outlandish claims about why...

While hardly of the same historical significance, it was somehow appropriate that Margaret Thatcher’s death and Tony Blair’s first major intervention into British politics since leaving office both occurred in the same week. When asked about her most important legacy,...