Keir Starmer’s commitment to send British troops to Ukraine is possibly the most consequential decision he has made as Prime Minister so far. Labour List niggled that it had won a mixed reception at this weeks meeting of European leaders in Paris. With impending elections for the German Bundestag and
If this government wants us to know one thing about its objectives at the moment, it is that economic growth is their priority. From infrastructure investment, to planning reform and even pensions, growth is the thread running through all recent government announcements. Whether or not you agree with every decision,
Our democracy, like those across the world, is in danger. Citizens here are losing faith in democracy as they cannot earn enough to live, and we are also threatened by Putin’s aggression in Europe. Dealing with both is the only way to save democracy. We can only protect democracy by
Party meetings become tough and tedious when moderates resist predatory groups that exploit Labour as a recruiting ground but don’t share its values of social democratic change by parliamentary means. In the early 1980s there was a running confrontation in Brighton and elsewhere with the Militant Tendency, formally known as
Vision without Funding is Hallucination. Most ambitions are limited by resources; difficult choices and compromises need to me made. By way of example, the UK has an outstanding Fire Brigade, but since most of the UK population will never directly require their services, the level of funding required is subject
Last month, tech giants in the United States (US) were dealt a blow of $1 trillion by DeepSeek, a relatively unknown artificial intelligence (AI) startup from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). NVidia, a US company at the forefront of the AI revolution, lost over $600 billion in market value
The sudden collapse of Assad’s regime in Syria significantly diminished Iran’s regime, which poured an estimated $30 billion into propping up Assad. Assad fell within weeks of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and the primary losers in this geopolitical shift are undoubtedly the ruling clerics in Tehran. The fall of Assad has sparked
With Trump back in the White House, a destructive war raging between Russia and Ukraine, economic stagnation across much of the EU, the cost-of-living crisis pummeling European electorates, and social democrats struggling in the face of a populist far right resurgence, there are reasons to be downbeat about the future
In late 2023, there was an internal debate within the Labour Party as to whether to drop the term “life sciences” from its literature. Insights from a leading polling company were sent to advisors detailing a lack of public understanding of what the term means, how the industry is determined,
“Once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders” – Denis Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence 1964 to 1970 These are the words of Labour’s
