My first Labour party conference was back in the early 1990s when as a campaigner for penal reform I was part of a group of free-thinking radicals and lawyers (including a young barrister called Keir Starmer). Our efforts to convince the party that community sentencing was a more effective response

Ignorance can be bliss; yes, even for some Labour activists on the matter of history of the party. Yet this reality never fails to amaze – and depress – me. On my way into Conference last year, I was handed a leaflet calling for a return to the 1948 NHS

The road to get the NHS back on its feet will be long – and will require pragmatism as well as a vision. Adam Sampson, Chief Executive of the Association of Optometrists, suggests five ways to kickstart the process Almost three months in, the character of the Labour government could