Month: July 2016

After the earthquake, it is surely time to stand back a little and take stock. After one of the most extraordinary months ever in British politics, the pieces have been thoroughly shaken and are now returned to earth. The landscape is entirely different from the seeming certainties of just a month ago, the old guard… Continue reading Labour at the crossroads

Now, the Centre Left has been a little preoccupied over recent months with the slow collapse of the Labour Party as we know it. But world events now still seem to be competing to reach the same level of insanity.Aside from the horrific attacks in Nice, where families celebrating Bastille day were butchered by an… Continue reading Turkey: the bus reaches its destination

“The Labour Party is facing its most serious crisis in its century-long history,” writes Eric Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling. He’s not wrong. First of all, since my last Uncut column, it is no exaggeration to say that British politics has been turned upside down by the win of Leave in… Continue reading Labour is in meltdown

Wrote this yesterday for Progress Online, on the outcome of Chilcot: it seems, sadly, that Britain will be much less likely in future to intervene on humanitarian grounds. As we did in Kosovo, and saved thousands of lives.  Syria (and, worse: Rwanda, where the international community stood by and the death toll was in millions)… Continue reading Will Britain ever intervene again?