I’ve been trying to think of a way to show that often, when someone attacks the BBC or other broadcasters for not being impartial it’s really because it’s saying something…

UNITY Starmer won the Labour leadership on a simple platform. He was the unity candidate. Corbyn’s leadership had been marked by division that had played badly with voters. This was…

  Today we release our #TenPledges, identifying 10 key points we believe Labour needs to sign up to in order to begin healing its relationship with the Jewish community.We would…

Postal voting has been steadily increasing in the UK, perhaps in line with our aging population. When I delivered Labour Party leaflets to postal voters during the 2019 General Election…

This is a letter I wrote to ipaper in response to an article on Labour and antisemitism. It is yet to be published. Dear Sir, In today’s i (November 27)…

The Daily Mail was outraged last week by the news that Jamal al Harith, an ISIS suicide bomber had once been interned in Guantanamo Bay until the Labour government obtained his…

There are so many big lies in the world – think Brexit Bus or the current outpourings from the Whitehouse – that there is a danger that the little lies slip…

Bernard Knox’s introduction to Robert Fagles’ translation of The Iliad contains an interesting discussion on the nature of the gods and heroes of Greek myth. In contrast to the moral…

Jeremy Corbyn is coming in for a lot of criticism over the three line whip on MPs to vote for the Government motion on Article 50. But what was the…

Labour Officials warned to be on the alert for violent behaviour at Labour Party Conference. This is a headline in today’s i paper. Apparently there is a memo, we are…