Liverpool Articles

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...

It seems that, against all the odds, a new consensus on regional devolution is emerging. Andrew Adonis’ review is an important contribution to the debate around the need for greater devolution of budgets, resources and political powers from Whitehall. I particularly...

I welcome Ed Miliband’s announcement today. After years of painful funding cuts (still going on) we could be forgiven for thinking that Westminster politics thought the recession was a problem caused by local government – rather than them being part of the solution....

Collins helps make Labour fit for the 21st century I attended my first Labour party annual conference 30 years ago. I was the 17-year-old delegate from Enfield Southgate CLP, conference was in Blackpool, and Neil Kinnock had been party leader for just a year. At that...