On Friday, Angela Eagle claimed that “the way that we make policy in the Labour Party is changing“. But for delegates to Labour’s national policy forum in Birmingham this weekend, the jury is out on ...

Campaigning group Next Generation Labour (NGL) has established itself as a leading voice within the Labour party against George Osborne’s austerity package, to which the party leadership has made ...

I have certainly had a busy week at GMB Congress in Brighton, with not only the usual hectic conference schedule, but also a series of meetings with activists and officials within the union to plan ...

Most of the rich politicians in Britain, says the Times, are Tories as you would expect.Lord Ashcroft (worth £1,200m) leads the field, pharmaceutical magnate Lord Balleymond next (worth £860m), ...

No, it was muslims that killed 1m other muslims in Iraq, George, and you encouraged the bloodbath. Of course the West should noit have intervened in the first place, but muslims have been killing ...

The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) a trade agreement covering 50 countries and more than 68 percent of world trade in services is being drawn up between the EU and the US. The draft agreement was ...

If only he hadn’t died a few years back, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the late Soviet general Gennady Yanayev had been acting as strategy consultant to Hilary Benn and his mates since last ...

Says our Tory Troll with the entirely bogus name. Whereas ever increasing numbers of people are seeing the last 30 years of neoliberal capitalism as a rapacious system of market driven robbery of the ...

Pluralism has deep roots amongst Jews. The Talmud, the basis of rabbinic law and primary object of Jewish study for 1500 years, is not dogma. It is sixty-three books of debate and disputation, ...

Good Afternoon; This is the 1st time I have blogged on your site, so here goes, with your permission, of course.Watching Brillo’s programme This Week gave me the opportunity to see Hodges at first ...

The absurdity of the Blairite position is now, as Owen Jones pointed out in today’s Guardian, that the only defenders of the better legacies of New Labour (tax credits, fighting child poverty, ...

I entirely agree about the word “progressive” which now is simply a term of approbation (a hurrah word rather than a boo word) with zero analytical content. Everyone can lay claim to being a ...