The controversial policing tactic needs to be scrapped — but who will stand up against the police’s discriminatory stop and search powers. On Sunday 9th August, Dawn Butler, MP for Brent Central and recent contender for Labour’s Deputy Leader, was wrongly stopped by the police while she was out with…

Histories of the ‘Bevanites’, the grouping at the centre of the Labour Left in the late 1940s and 1950s, have typically focussed on a few aspects. The personal journey of Nye Bevan and his unsuccessful bid for the Labour leadership, the Bevanites role in campaigning for nuclear disarmament and their…

Calls for the Labour Party to abandon its bold, left-wing agenda should not be embraced — the fight for a different kind of society must go on. In the last half-decade Labour has come a long way from the days of austerity-lite. Rejecting austerity, a tradition of military adventurism and…

This is intended to be a fuller version of a comment piece I wrote for HuffPost UK. My original intention was to write something which emphasised that as a democratic socialist I believe that building a swathe of council housing and introducing rent control, while positive and progressive, will not…

Ten years after the financial crisis we are finally starting to see coherent economic thinking which looks at alternatives — and equally importantly, thinking which recognises that our economic model’s problems are not just a smattering of minor issues. The recently released ‘Prosperity and Justice’ report from the IPPR is…

It’s an all too familiar line, that there is too much talk of reducing inequality of outcome and that really we need to acknowledge the importance of equal opportunities. Equal opportunity is valuable and we have nowhere near enough of it, but pursuing equal opportunity alone would be a disaster…

After thirty years of a political consensus which broadly accepted Thatcherism as the reality the first big sign of a change has come. We ran on the most left-wing platform that Labour has offered for thirty years and ran perhaps the best General Election campaign ran by Labour in the…