Kazakhstan: Another Stain on Blair’s Reputation
ANOTHER day, another so called democracy on the skids. This time it is Kazakhstan. In a country infamous for repression and the abuse of human rights, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has…
The Labour Party. Nothing Ever Lasts Forever.
The Labour Party of Hardie, Benn, Attlee, Bevan, Wilson, Skinner and Corbyn is now the Labour Party of Murdoch, Evans, Starmer, and, if you have a few million going spare,…
The spectacle of Labour conference
When Labour Party activists gather in Brighton this week, many will be excited at being at what appears to be the heart of Labour’s decision making process. Conference is an…
How we lost the war on terror
I remember where I was 20 years ago on this day. I was at an economics conference in Nottingham. As I was walking towards the first session, a young American…