Has Starmer done his best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Thursday, February 15th, 2024Labour’s continuing inability to manage candidate selection for forthcoming elections, despite Keir Starmer’s seemingly fetishistic demand for control of this process, gives rise to an
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The days of the Union are over
Wednesday, January 31st, 2024Unlike many, I am not inclined to celebrate the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland as yet. I heard Sam Coates on Sky last night
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Does Labour know what England and the other countries of the UK are, and if it does not, how can it hope to rule successfully?
Monday, January 29th, 2024I went to see the National Theatre production of ‘Dear England’ at a cinema in Cambridge yesterday, and it has been hard to think about
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The Taxing Wealth Report: Abolishing the UK's student tax would cost £4 billion a year
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note suggests that the
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Voting for a leader without a cause has never been a good political idea
Friday, January 5th, 2024Tweets referring to my column in The National in Scotland yesterday seemed to cost me about one hundred Twitter followers last night as Labour supporters
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What will 2024 bring?
Monday, January 1st, 2024Happy new year. I thought I’d offer some predictions for 2024. They are in no particular order. Many will be wrong, but thinking about what
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Disconnection is my word of the year for 2023
Friday, December 29th, 2023In political terms, 2023 was significant. For a start, this might have been the last year in which the Tories govern the UK for some
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Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023Might I make a plea to those who usually ignore what I write about Scotland, and suggest what follows is of universal UK appeal, and
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Labour is not unassailable
Thursday, November 30th, 2023Amongst the many false assumptions that Labour is working on would seem to be the one that suggests that it will sweep back to office
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