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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Labour must return to its radical rootsLabour is becalmed ahead of Scotland’s election. For the party to surge, it needs to ride the current of...
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Published in: Home: OpinionKeir Starmer’s leadership isn’t new at allBy saying nothing of any interest, the UK's new Labour leader reassures the powerful that he is suitably dull.
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Published in: Home: OpinionLabour lost because of a fudge in which we all participatedTwo years on from the crucial moment for Labour’s Brexit policy - here’s what we got wrong
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI was at the heart of Corbynism. Here's why we lostStructural factors, not individual failings, defeated us
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPortugal's power-sharing success story has vital lessons for LabourPortugal shows that both pluralism and proportional representation don’t have to hold socialists back – indeed quite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBoris who? Didn’t he use to be famous?Johnson’s coup has ignited the possibility of a united opposition from below. Now we need to keep our eyes on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ten Brexit questions no-one’s giving a straight answer toLabour now backs a second referendum. But the Tories are seriously freewheeling towards No Deal (today’s vote in...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia#Tech4Worse: The problem with digital labour initiatives for the Middle EastContrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don’t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy aren't Egyptians revolting against the price hikes?Some are frustrated at the Egyptian public’s ‘non-reaction’ to the waves of successive price hikes and deterioration...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBreaking the impasse: how to avoid a Labour splitA Labour split would be disastrous. But the party can avoid this if it learns from the republicanism of Machiavelli.
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Published in: ourNHSLipstick on the TTIP pigCorbyn seems less inclined to buy the 'compromises' that TTIP negotiators are selling - which campaigners have...
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Published in: ourNHSMichael Sheen - the NHS "is about as powerful a symbol of goodness as we have"In a passionate St David's Day speech in defence of the NHS, actor Michael Sheen tells politicians "Stand up for...
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Published in: ourNHSLabour NHS plan outrages privatisersLabour's new plans to reduce private profiteering in the NHS have triggered a vicious counter-attack in the Tory...
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Published in: ourNHSShould politicians summer reading lists include 'unthinkable' ideas for the NHS?Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians'...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKYes, Labour should listen to its base
UK Labour's right wing calls on the party to ignore populism when that means blaming bankers or rejecting austerity...
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Published in: ourNHSLabour turn spotlight on GP shortagesYesterday Miliband pledged a GP appointment for all within 48 hours, today Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham...
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Published in: ourNHSDon't believe Cameron's hype - the Welsh NHS has much to teach the EnglishCameron this week labelled the Welsh NHS 'a scandal', and some Blairites have echoed him. But Wales is 'doing more...
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Published in: ourNHSLabour's new health ideas - will they rescue NHS from 'organisational dementia'?
We've been tweeting our thoughts on Labour's Oldham Commission on 'Whole Person Care', which launches its report...
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Published in: ourNHSEd Miliband, the NHS, and the lurch back towards BlairismEd Miliband’s Hugo Young lecture this week represents a giant step back to Blairism, and an extended statement of...
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Published in: ourNHSTomorrow's world - Labour's big NHS idea?Labour's 'big idea' on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it 'whole person...
