Eight things I’ve learned about Ed Davey
The Liberal Democrat leader is a politician with great ambitions. He is also my brother-in-law…
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Britain’s prisons are at breaking point
Labour must address the overcrowding crisis, however unpalatable the solutions.
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I couldn’t beat our local fly-tippers. Instead, I found myself joining them
Often I find myself picking among jettisoned debris, looking for incriminating documents, but rarely with any luck.
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A conspiracy of silence
Both Labour and the Conservatives are being disingenuous on spending. They must reckon with the choices facing the country.
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Sarah Sackman: “My Labour values and my Jewish identity were in tension”
The candidate for Finchley and Golders Green reflects on the Corbyn era and how the party has changed since.
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Fifty years on the campaign trail
What I’ve learned from five decades of reporting on British elections.
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Nigel Farage and the populist peril
The Reform surge is bad news for the Tories – but it also threatens Labour’s summer of hope.
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Browsing royal bookshelves with The Queen’s Reading Room
This podcast is confusing: there often isn’t is a link between the book Queen Camilla graciously highlights and the author…
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How to fix a nation
As the country enters a new political era, leading thinkers explain what Labour must do to rebuild a broken Britain.
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Reform of the legal system is imperative
Those who aspire to lead must embody the seven principles of public life.
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Solving the “labour question”
A Keir Starmer government should boost the economic power of working people.
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Today’s health service is a travesty of what it used to be
The Conservatives have subjected the NHS to the most savage funding squeeze in its history.
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Confronting the crisis of the commons
Britain has become a society that denies the most basic obligations we have towards one another.
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The UK can lead a new Anglosphere
In office, Labour should embrace the virtues of a medium-sized great power.
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A left-wing vision for a post-Brexit Britain
We should engage with the Global South and ease migration restrictions from Commonwealth countries.
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Liberate the regions
The government must empower regional mayors and place devolution at the core of its plans.
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Britain needs to grow again
A mission-oriented industrial strategy can help the UK escape its cycle of underinvestment.
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The Labour Party must forge a new national prosperity
Power should shift from the dead hand of the Treasury to Britain’s devolved authorities.
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The case for a revolution in education
Put the teaching of character, creativity, the arts and sport back into schools as the right of all pupils.
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Scotland’s renaissance
The Union can be saved by shifting Britain’s wealth back from the private to the public realm.
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