The voters are revolting, get used to it!

by | 1 Dec 2016 | Politics

The longer defeated parties remain in denial about the reasons for their loss of support, the longer they will remain out of office. This column was consistently scathing of both the leading candidates in the American Presidential Election, but is confident the world...

May set for MP battle over Brexit vote

by | 10 Oct 2016 | European Union, Politics

MPs from across the political spectrum have joined calls for a parliamentary vote on the terms of the UK leaving the European Union, despite the Prime Minister insisting such efforts will not “thwart the will of the British people.” In an escalating row, prominent MPs...

Dan Jarvis: pitching for the Labour leadership?

by | 10 Mar 2016 | Politics

Today Dan Jarvis arguably took the first steps in a bid to become Labour leader with a speech for the Demos think-tank setting out his vision for the Party. Echoing Tony Blair, Jarvis suggested that Labour must be “tough on inequality, tough on the causes of...

Prospect of early poll should worry Labour

by | 27 Jan 2016 | Politics

The Chinese general Sun Tzu once wrote that “the good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.” The Conservatives might be about to put such advice into practice. The Times reported...