News & Insight

12 January 2017

Largely due to Keir Starmer's skilful leadership in the House, Labour may have won a tactical victory over the Tories in last month's Commons debate over the Brexit timetable. But the two recent by-elections suggest that it may be losing...

10 January 2017

A political earthquake. That’s the metaphor that stuck. New fault lines tore up the most powerful country on the planet on November 8, as the institutions of the left crumpled and collapsed. Millions of Democrats are still confusedly picking amongst...

6 January 2017

A progressive approach to globalised finance needs to create a financial sector that funds investment in the real economy “I sympathise, therefore, with those who would minimise, rather than with those who would maximise, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science,...

6 January 2017

If we want to show how Labour can make a lasting difference to lives, we need to look to the local We know the power of people because we see it every day in our own communities. But too often people...

4 January 2017

Council housing was once a force for good in our communities - and it can be again   I grew up in council housing in south London in the 1960s and 70s. I will always be grateful to Southwark Council for providing...

4 January 2017

Few of us can remember a more turbulent year in politics than 2016. And it has only been a taster of what is yet to come. Especially for the left, the challenges are mounting, internationally and here at home. As...