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Published jointly with the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre, the report makes the case that, throughout history, economic justice has always depended on equal access…
LONDON – What is a failed state? Not so long ago, when I was Britain’s Overseas Development Minister, and later European Commissioner for External Affairs, I would probably have tried to answer the…
Boris Johnson’s plan to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament, from 9 September to 14 October, has several advantages for him in addition to the obvious one that it would close Parliament down
The game hasn’t really changed, not since the summer of 2016. It just keeps getting worse.
The prime minister’s willingness to ride roughshod over our democracy may not stop at suspending Parliament. Boris Johnson may go deeper into heart of darkness in his desperation to drag us out of…
Last week the legality of Boris Johnson’s recent dictator-like attempt to get his own way in Parliament (by shutting it down) was ruled to be unlawful by the Scottish Court of Session
At a meeting arranged by Salisbury for Europe, Andrew Adonis spoke to a capacity audience of over 200 people on the theme ‘Saving Britain – can it be done?’
I realise that the former head of MI6 speaking in Salisbury might excite a few people locally. Let me assure you that I am the friendly kind; well, to British people at…
This is the Brexit that powerful politicians in London are dumping on your doorstep. People in the South West – from the Isles of Scilly to Gloucester – are deeply affected by bad…
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