Lecturer in Law, Human Rights PhD, Labour Cllr for Thurlow Park, Lambeth. Also Debating, Guitars, Arsenal & Coffee. Views are mine
About a year ago I blasted off a few hundred words prior to Corbyn’s first leadership asking very simply what the plan was to win. None of the assumptions, Scotland, non- voters etc. seemed to stack up, there was simply no way that pointed to a coherent electoral strategy. The best…
This was something I wrote last year at the end of August. I still think every single word is correct. Every single fear about the lack of Corbyn electoral strategy has been proven. The only mitigation offered is that membership…
This is an exercise in futurology — which although famous for not being really worth the paper it is written on is necessary in the case of the Labour party. One important caveat: this piece starts from where the Labour party is…
It was Tony Benn who first approached Harold Wilson with the idea of putting the country’s membership to a vote on Membership of the EU. Wilson seized it in 1972 realising that it was the only way to keep an increasingly divided party together. Decades late divisions remained in Labour but it was the Conservative party who have crashed Britain out of…
It was a Melanie Phillips headline that was the final straw. “We’re choosing between freedom and serfdom” the headline for her Daily Mail column the Tuesday before the Eu referendum thundered. Given that her columns usually tread the line between far-right polemic and outright…