News & Insight

20 February 2015

I cannot claim to have known Aneurin Bevan, though I met him once and must have heard him speak a dozen times, including his great Trafalgar Square speech during the Suez War, and his final Labour Party conference speech after...

19 February 2015

Consensus is building across the political spectrum around the need for a permanent solution to the problem of increasingly unaffordable energy bills in the UK. While some have suggested that green policies are to blame for the increasing costs, the main...

17 February 2015

Present day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine and Saudi Arabia were part of the Turkish Empire for more than 400 years.  Much of this area is desert, but it also includes the “cradle of civilization” along the great Tigris and...

17 February 2015

So Jon Cruddas is in hot water with the media, again. This time it is his supposedly anti-business stance with respect to public services. Through partial quotation of a forthcoming pamphlet, the Daily Telegraph suggested yesterday that Cruddas wants to...

11 February 2015

More often than not the accusation comes in that politicians are all the same, with nothing to separate their petty squabbles and public relations facades. Perhaps this is in part because we are not highlighting some of Labour’s strengths. One area...

11 February 2015

We need lower energy bills if we are to end fuel poverty and the cold homes crisis. This much is agreed. Yet no other shadow announcements have received as much exposure on the doorstep - nor collected as many critics from...