Islington Articles

Labour politicians sometimes suffer from a deficiency of the eustachian tube: the conduit that connects the nose with the brain. When they smell power their memory goes. This is certainly the case with Jeremy Corbyn when he presents himself as an irenic figure anxious...

If we are honest the last 12 months have not been great for advocates of cooperation. The debacles at the Co-operative Group and Bank have cast doubt on the value that cooperative principles bring to the lives of ordinary families. It is sadly part of a wider process...

A few weeks ago, I had a slightly surreal conversation with Boris Johnson in a lift in which he said all children should eat school dinners. Last week the School Food Plan was launched amid outraged headlines suggesting that the main recommendation is a ban on packed...

Last week Tony Blair challenged the Labour party to consider ‘the case for fundamental reform of the postwar state’. He laid out seven questions which he hopes will guide discussion of this reform. The first question was: ‘What is driving the rise in housing benefit...