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Deselection is a theoretical luxury if you don't even have a Labour MP
Never mind Blairite - what if your local MP is a Tory? The road to a Labour Government is steep, and requires the gain of many former Labour seats which now produce hefty Conservative (or SNP)...
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Labour appeals against decision to allow new members a leadership contest vote
The Court of Appeal will hear the latest in a legal battle. Labour's leadership rivals are due to clash at a debate but the bitterest battle has been taking place in a dustier setting - the courts....
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How tour merchandise became high fashion
Former Disney star Selena Gomez is selling paper-thin mesh bodysuits for hundreds of dollars apiece. How did we get here? Have the worlds of music and fashion ever been so closely intertwined? Earlier...
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The hard left's secret plan to infiltrate Labour by making meetings as boring...
Yes, your comrades know they are droning on. That's the point. The deputy Labour leader Tom Watson faced a backlash from his boss after claiming the party was subject to infiltration by "Trots"....
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Owen Smith is reviving Project Fear – the Labour leadership contenders should...
This week on the campaign trail, including our £500bn promise and the trouble with quantitative easing. Jeremy Corbyn launched ten pledges for his leadership campaign this month, detailing how the...
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Leader: Grammar schools and social mobility
Rather than reinstating grammar schools, focusing on early-years education would be a more productive way of undermining the stranglehold of the privately educated on British life. Nostalgia is ripe...
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The grammar school debate is back – but the government must do what's best...
My week in politics, including existential questions, two-tier schools and how Ed Balls beat me to the Strictly ballroom."Hello. Jess Phillips speaking.” “Oh, hello. I was ringing to ask for some help...
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Why the Bank of England’s stimulus bazooka won’t be enough to save the economy
The markets have been spooked by Brexit. If we want to improve the economy long term, we need to thing about our reputation, not monetary tonics. As far as the economic consequences of the Brexit vote...
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Don't forget the most under-represented group in our democracy - disabled people
Roughly 16 per cent of working age adults are living with a limiting long-term illness, impairment, or disability, but just 1 per cent of MPs. There are currently 192 female MPs, a hundred of which...
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How your Google searches can be used against you in court
Internet search histories are now commonly used as evidence in courts, but just how reliable are they? On 7 October 2015, 21 days before the schoolboy Bailey Gwynne was stabbed to death at Cults...
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Unison backs Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader
The union's endorsement comes after the GMB backed Owen Smith. Unison, the second largest trade union in the country, has backed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader after a consultation with members....
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Recess confidential: Labour's love's lost
Labour HQ is supposed to be neutral in the leadership contest. And yet. . .Labour HQ is officially neutral in the struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith but the former’s team speak of “dirty...
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Easy on the hope: Todd Solondz's playful misery
The director of Wiener-Dog is like Woody Allen's even-more-despairing kid brother – and I don't just mean in his looks. In the corner of a deserted cinema bar high above Piccadilly Circus sits a pale,...
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The wizard of Oxford: what Tolkien could hear in a voice
Over the radio, J R R Tolkien's precise and musical voice told us why he'd never have gone to hunt a dragon.“What would you have done if you had been a little boy, and a wizard had come and asked you...
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Same-sex marriage might be legal, but gay couples are still considered too...
Delta Airlines removing all the kisses from Carol is just the latest example of the arbitrary censorship lesbians have always been subject to. Who decides what’s rude? On one of those “searingly hot...
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Muslim women face triple discrimination at work - and taking off a hijab...
Muslim women face discrimination not only in the workplace, but in education and within their own communities. The findings of the Women and Equalities committee confirms what we at the Muslim...
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Eighties nights: why Stranger Things has me hiding behind the sofa
This week, I return to the Eighties with Stranger Things on Netflix and BBC2’s The 80s With Dominic Sandbrook. I come a little late to the Netflix series Stranger Things. But then, what does that even...
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How close is the Labour leadership race?
Jeremy Corbyn has won 87 per cent of constituency nominations. But Owen Smith's team boast of more favourable data. The Labour leadership contest has more than six weeks to run. But the view of most...
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I'm voting Owen Smith - because to me, he's a true leader
In Owen, I see a true leader - an individual capable of not only uniting Labour, but holding the Tories to account and forming a Labour government, says Martha O'Neill. Last week’s Labour Leadership...
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I'm voting Owen Smith - because to me, he's a true leader
In Owen, I see a true leader - an individual capable of not only uniting Labour, but holding the Tories to account and forming a Labour government, says Martha O'Neill. Last week’s Labour Leadership...
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