A year later and things are not looking good for post-Brexit Britain - there is no clear plan from current leadership on how to execute Brexit, and all attempts to negotiate the UK’s departure from the EU have failed in spectacular fashion. On top of having to react to such ...
Last night's BBC documentary on the Labour election campaign had a very telling moment that appears to have been filmed in MP Stephen Kinnock's campaign in the run up to the June 8 General Election. A campaigner for Labour's MP for the Welsh constituency of Aberavon makes clear how if ...
I suspect it’s safe to say few, if any, Londoners consider themselves novices when it comes to dim sum. With an extensive number of Chinatown restaurants including it on the menu, we like to think there’s nothing that could possibly surprise us. Enter Courtesan. This restaurant, tea room, cocktail bar ...
The shadow foreign secretary challenged Boris Johnson to recognise the Palestinian state to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when his predecessor as Foreign Secretary wrote in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in the then British held territory of Palestine. And she promised ...
Misdefending the Realm by historian Antony Percy is an eye-opening account of the Soviet Union’s infiltration of the British government during World War Two, and the shocking failing of MI5 in dealing with the threat effectively. Having thoroughly researched MI5’s activities during the critical era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939 ...
Columnist Owen Jones took to Marr show this morning to discuss serious sexual allegation in today's Sunday’s papers. Jones said there are reports of “two senor cabinet Ministers being named by political researchers as serial sex pests. “The PM has been briefed on these allegations. Whips, and this is critical, ...
Populist politicians are weaponizing trade to the determent of the global economy, a new book has claimed. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly becoming a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. Although trade, wars and foreign policy have been interwoven throughout ...
Thank you for that fantastic welcome and thank you for inviting me here today. I want to begin by saying that today’s “Socialists Together” conference is a great initiative, and when Gianni Pittella invited me to speak, I was very glad to accept. I want to thank everybody from all ...
The Labour grassroots organisation now has over 31,000 members, a huge following considering it was only launched a couple of years ago. Momentum was set-up after Jereym Corbyn’s shock victory in the Labour leadership contest in 2015. The group has come under criticism from the right of British media and ...