If your political base has crumbled and you are trying to reach the road to recovery, symbolism is important. From the wreckage that is the Scottish Labour Party came just such a move, today appointing Alan Roden, Political Editor of the Scottish Daily Mail to become its Director of Communications. For a party in such […]

Global Justice Now policy officer Alex Scrivener says the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has been a "disaster" and the UK deserves a fairer food system
LET'S get one thing straight: the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (Cap) is a disaster. It is essentially a £50bn welfare system for the landed gentry and other big landowners across Europe. 
While people who genuinely need public funds find...

Tony Blair is innocent. He did what any ambitious, thrusting politician with a crushing majority would do…bestride the world stage and play up to the great powers, embracing the power lure of igniting war. Here was a man so popular, so representative of the country the UK wanted to be, he could do anything (that […]