Security Council Articles

Nothing better encapsulates what the Labour party stands for than the phrase on every membership card – ‘by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more together than we do alone’. It is an abiding principle that sums up our core values of solidarity,...

Barack Obama’s hesitation, Vladimir Putin’s cunning and David Cameron’s parliamentary mismanagement combined to spare Labour from having to make a definitive choice about how the UK should respond to the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons.  Yet given the...

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...

David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s post-election ‘relaunch’ of their mostly civil partnership shifted from rose garden to Essex tractor factory last month in an attempt to show themselves less Romeo and Juliet, smitten with the scent of power, than men at work. But the...