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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: openDemocracyUKJohn Smith and the path Britain did not takeWhen we lost John Smith, we lost a leader who would have taken Labour and Britain down the path of radical and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn inevitable division: the politics and consequences of the Labour splitIt’s the changing nature of class and capital that’s caused this split – and should shape the Left’s response to it....
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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...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNot working enough? The morality of work in contemporary politicsAs Iain Duncan Smith blames the low paid for their poverty, is the left falling into the trap of embracing the ethic...
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