Just over four years ago, Labour suffered a humiliating general election defeat. At times, the party’s decline felt terminal. Under Keir Starmer, however, the turnaround over the last five years has been truly remarkable. We’ve gone from a devasted, out-of-touch, shell of a party to a serious government-in-waiting. As Chair
Over the past few years we have suffered unforeseen breakdowns in global supply chains – covid, limited access through the Red Sea and Suez canal, piracy and war zones. In parallel there has been a steady unwinding of trade globalisation as tariffs and bureaucratic barriers to easy movement of goods
We all do it. Oh sure, we ‘might join you guys later’ for a drink after work. Even though it’s raining. Even though it’s Bake Off, and it’s bread week. Bread week. Oh absolutely, ‘we must catch up properly soon’ with eyes-a-bit-close-together dad we noticed too late and couldn’t avoid
Under intense public and political scrutiny and renewed media attention, former Post Office CEO Paula Vennels has relinquished her CBE; Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey – under pressure as a former Postal Services Minister – is finding that sorry seems to be the hardest word, and Fujitsu, responsible for
Leonard Cohen crooned “There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.” If the ability to count is essential in politics so is clearly defining the drivers of war and peace.The hard-left Stop the War Coalition – the stoppers
Being an Israeli lefty means walking an incredibly lonely road. It means to be a Zionist (believing that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish-majority state), but also to believe in a peace with the Palestinians through the two-state solution. We are the ultimate outcasts; Israeli nationalists marginalise
A cautionary tale, at scale. In the end, every political campaign is a lesson in revisionism. Those that win are assumed to have been touched by genius, masterminded by a rare masterclass of orchestration. Policy and communications singing in Beach Boys harmony. Lead candidates and their deputies a Torvill and
The similarities with the Labour government of 1964 and a potential Labour government of 2024 are hard to overstate, especially when it comes to defence – the shadow defence secretaries in the lead up to both elections even share the same surname. When Denis Healey became the Secretary of State
The Shakespeare is well-located to serve as a crucial cog in Britain’s integrated transport network. The pub is just outside Victoria Station, between the grand, creaking railway terminus and the slightly less grand Coach Station. Convenient then, because when your train is cancelled and you’ve got to summon the courage
The rhetoric delivered by some British policymakers that Rwanda is safe and prosperous presents an incomplete perspective of the country. Rwandans do not understand the rationale of the UK Government’s plan to transfer asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda. Rwandans often flee their country to seek asylum elsewhere. According to the
