The food we eat is a complex and much debated issue. Diet can contribute to how children develop, how healthy we continue to be throughout life and often be used as a sign of where we stand on politic...

By George Guillam Following over 200 amendments proposed by the government, the Employment Rights Bill is now making its way through the Lords, and, if the custom of manifesto commitments receiving li...

A testament to Mick Lynch’s cultural impact is the scale of media coverage that his retirement as General Secretary of the RMT at the age of 63, has received. The last trade union general secretary wh...

Labourism once again stalks the halls of Westminster. On the 10th of October, Labour presented its Employment Rights Bill before Parliament;. Its media spin emphasised the individual benefits that wor...

After a brief period of political turmoil following the fallout of Keir Starmer’s donation mini-scandal, the ultimate civil service insider Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Chief of Staff to...

100 years ago this year the Labour Party entered government for the first time as the main governing party. It would be a short-lived administration, but it represented a landmark change in British po...

History as a means of telling a story can be a difficult task. William Shakespeare would often twist history in a way that would suit the drama best, in more recent years The Crown came under intense ...

The public’s ability to trust politicians is a crucial part of any democratic system. If trust is lost, either in an individual, or in the system itself it can have a marked effect not only on the pub...

On the 2nd of February, Tata Steel announced that it would be starting the consultation process which is expected to result in nearly 3,000 redundancies at Port Talbot as it moves to close two of its ...

GMB union’s 2022 “Voluntary Partnership Agreement” with Deliveroo was conspicuously absent from coverage of the UK Supreme Court case which ruled against the IWGB union in their fight for statutory re...

GMB union’s 2022 “Voluntary Partnership Agreement” with Deliveroo was conspicuously absent from coverage of the UK Supreme Court case which ruled against the IWGB union in their fight for statutory re...

Over the last few months, Labour’s New Deal for Working People has become front and centre of Labour’s otherwise confused policy offering. Labour is committed to enshrining it in law within the first ...

When looking at Labour leadership contests of the recent past, most are united by the shared characteristic that candidates define themselves against the previous leadership and then from one another....

Despite gradually declining inflation, prices remain stubbornly high, heaping more pressure on working families already suffering from a decade with no growth and severe cuts to the social safety net....

In late June 2022, as the first national rail strikes began in what would become Britain’s “summer of solidarity,” a new stand-out national political figure emerged. Leader of the Rail, Maritime...

James Graham’s play, Dear England has received much praise since it opened in June last year. I, however, did not enjoy it as much as the reviews indicated I should have and was disappointed particu...

Caution has long been the watchword of the Labour Party. Roy Jenkins’ famous analogy comparing Labour’s caution in 1996 with a museum curator carrying a priceless Ming vase across a slippery floor...

Mark Drakeford has resigned as Leader of Welsh Labour and will be stepping down as First Minister of Wales in the new year. The decision, a surprise but not an unexpected one, comes as he enters his f...

For the first time in over forty years, the TUC held a special Congress. Its aim was to discuss the trade union movement’s strategy of opposition to the newly introduced minimum service legislation....

For the first time in over forty years, the TUC held a special Congress. Its aim was to discuss the trade union movement’s strategy of opposition to the newly introduced minimum service legislation....

Before I start this review (other, more knowledgeable ones are available), I should confess that I know very little about Rugby League. Being middle-class and privately educated, I play and watch Rugb...

In 1996, a year out from an election the Conservative Party was sure to lose, John Major announced new “stiffer penalties” that meant “those who don’t want to work are exposed”. The Labour p...

To tell the story of someone as controversial and misunderstood as Marcia Williams is a particularly difficult task, one that Linda McDougall ably achieves in her new book Marcia Williams: The Life of...

For the duration of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party the British press worked themselves up into a frenzy with rumours of “entryists” to the Labour party. These people were an anat...

The UK Government has announced its first wave of minimum service legislation. This will mandate a minimum number of employees working during industrial action in rail, border force, and ambulance dis...

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Continuing our series discussing British political dramas of film and TV, host Ciaran is joined by Editors Michael and Sam to discuss House of Cards a 1990 BBC drama centring on the machiavellian rise...

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One thing that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has significantly improved in the last year is its relationship management with trade unions. Whereas there used to be semi-regular coverage questioning th...

After a bitter dispute, which included 18 days of strike action in 2022 and a scorched-earth approach from Royal Mail group, the Communications Workers Union and Royal Mail Group finally thrashed out ...

The story of New Labour is often framed around the idea of revolution, with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (and Peter Mandelson) being the interlopers who rejected tradition to change the Labour party fr...

What a difference a year makes. Last year’s Congress ended just as Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister, having inflicted a serious blow on the economy and her own party’s political prospects. The...

There has recently been much debate as to whether or not Labour is backtracking on its commitment to its New Deal for Working People. These questions have been mainly prompted by events at the NPF, a ...

The latest release from Forum Press (an imprint of Swift Press dedicated to “free debate and bold ideas,”) Rakib Ehsan’s Beyond Grievance is a curious polemic against the identity politics the a...

In 1996, a year out from an election the Conservative Party was sure to lose, John Major announced new “stiffer penalties” that meant “those who don’t want to work are exposed”. The Labour p...

According to David Miller, the former University of Bristol sociology professor, it is a “fact” that “Jews” are “overrepresented in positions of cultural, economic and political power”, an...

On Thursday the Financial Times reported that the Labour party had watered down plans to strengthen workers’ rights in an attempt to woo corporate leaders and discredit Tory party claims that Labour...

Aneurin Bevan is considered one of the greatest statesmen of his era. Yet Bevan often gets wrapped up in his own myth. Bevan is often defined as simply a great speaker, or as the man who founded the N...

The world was invited into Sunak’s happy place. Aping the cosplay of Tory PMs of recent past, Sunak was photographed in Margaret Thatcher’s old rover for his interview with The Sunday Telegraph wh...

The landscape Beyond Flat Earth: European Liberals vs Conspiracy Theories by Milosz Hodun entered in 2021 is a familiar one to those aware of conspiracy theories. While the COVID-19 pandemic turbo-cha...