The battle for the Labour leadership is not really about who leads. It is about what is led and for what purpose. And it is about public disaffection with the whole of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Globalization is tottering because most people are worse off because of it. In our national context the interests of […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
We will perhaps know more when the Democratic Convention is complete and we have seen the color of Clinton’s campaign. But meanwhile here are the key themes from Trump which resonate with what is now an international surge against the way things are and all the people and institutions who have had a hand in […]
Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years. This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and […]
Democracies do not suffer coups because change is effected through the ballot boxes. Neither do they have purges of tens of thousands of officials nor do they have laws declared by decree. In Turkey all this is happening right now. This is unacceptable for a candidate for membership of the EU and certainly for membership […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
We will have to wait until we can analyse his acceptance speech later in the week, but Trump has confounded every pundit everywhere to come through to the final winning line for the Republican nomination. Everyone said he couldn’t, he shouldn’t, he wouldn’t, but he did. The same pundits are saying that he cannot make […]
I am going to keep the rhetoric short. The political chaos within the government is over and real politics has begun again. Yesterday we had a symbolic debate about Trident, symbolic because parliament had voted already to proceed. It was good party politics and exposed Labour’s divisions. But now the business of Brexit, the economy, international […]
It will offend left wing readers of this blog who have not read Turn Left For Power, in which the whole issue of deterrence is comprehensively argued and examined, to learn that were I an MP today I would vote to renew. To hold a principled view that nuclear weapons are wicked and unacceptable is a posture to […]
It is too early to judge with accuracy exactly what is going on in Turkey. We know the coup has failed. We do not know exactly who was behind it. The Erdogan government seems to know almost too much, stoking wilder theories that it was in fact behind the whole thing. Whatever the truth and there […]