For those of us who lived through it, the election held on 9 April 1992 had a profound impact on our politics. Labour...
For those of us who lived through it, the election held on 9 April 1992 had a profound impact on our politics. Labour...
Almost 10 years ago, on a cold day in late October 2004, I stood with dozens of other Labour party activists at the...
Forty-nine. That’s the number of Syrian deaths not for every word, but every letter, in this column. (The preceding...
It’s terrible to say I told you so. It’s smug, and when matters take a turn for the worse, it doesn’t fix the problem...
The National Executive Committee met for its away day (actually a misnomer as we only went as far 'away' as the...
I begin this piece with some unwelcome news. The Manchester Evening News has revealed that university applications for...
So, after a year, that was it. Ed Miliband’s big speech. Your humble insider thought he delivered it OK, actually,...
Ed Miliband’s ‘producers and predators’ metaphor has been wilfully misinterpreted. But it must be shown to have...
Ed Miliband is right that Britain wants a more responsible capitalism – but public service reform must not be an...
Today's PMQs was always going to be centred on the issue of Europe. There are few areas of policy where Cameron's...
Last week’s analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, suggesting a 700,000 increase in child poverty by 2020,...
An angry David Cameron looks a little like a small (yet sinister) dragon who has never developed the ability to...