It would be fair to say that Iran has been the pariah of international politics for over forty years. The United States has never got...

New Labour's plans for identity cards were swept aside in a storm of protest. They were deemed to be an assault on the liberties of the...

The electoral trends might be going the Conservatives' way, but Alexander wants to sew things up. So the boundaries of constituencies are...

Alexander will lift more pandemic restrictions on Monday, and this is one promise to which he intends to stick. However, the so-called...

The state of Ohio in the United States has, as a result of despair at the low vaccination rate, begun to offer incentives for...

Alexander has finally bestirred himself to announce a public inquiry on the causes and course of the pandemic. The terms of reference,...

In response to the welcome and constructive comments of a loyal reader, I have modified the blogpost, 'Driverless cars: who thinks that...

Some of the older readers among you may remember when the Labour politician Michael Meacher (who died in 2015) took the political...

It has often been claimed during the course of this pandemic that it has highlighted social inequalities. This is true ; however, it has...

It has become apparent during the past year that Labour has refrained from criticising the government too much over the panedemic (it has...

First, start looking for votes in places which have not voted for Labour MPs before (Hastings, Worthing), but where the Conservative vote...

I intend to write a fuller analysis of the problems facing the Labour Party whwn I have undertaken some more reading on the subject....

There have been several opportunities for a re-alignment of the Left since 1918 : at the time of the minority Labour government in...

Many, if not most, Brexiters will claim that Britain's sovereignty (or what they would perceive as Britain's loss of it) was never...

It is now forty years since the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), by Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and...

Construction companies and property developers are significant donors to the Conservative Party. The government has just passed...

The government is going to permit driverless cars on the roads at some point this year. Ever since the gruesome twosome of Ernest Marples...

And the people looked on the Ozymandias of Downing Street, and heard his decrees. They gathered in the taverns, imbibed the magic...

Alexander has made clear his disdain and contempt for everyone, except for those donors to the (misnamed) Conservative and Unionist Party...

This discussion, first broadcast on Thames Television in June 1980, and now available on YouTube, is remarkable. Relationships in the...