After its worst election defeat in over 80 years, the U.K. Labour Party is choosing who will replace Jeremy Corbyn as Leader and (already-departed) Tom Watson as Deputy. The winners will be announced in early April. One of the candidates for Deputy Leader, Richard Burgon, made waves when he proposed…

I imagine it won’t be long before the crowing begins. Britain has left the E.U. and yet, contrary to ‘remoaning remoaner’ forecasts of doom and gloom, ‘the sky hasn’t fallen in’, and a ‘new dawn’ has broken. Of course, like everything to do this deceptive, elitist and beyond-incompetently managed affair…

We must be honest when calculating the challenge we face As the Labour movement continues to grapple with the aftermath of the 2019 general election, it must avoid resorting to the cold comforts of meaningless statistics. …

Over the three years that I have been writing about politics, I’ve tried to follow a rule. No matter how bad things get, try to find the positives; the bits of hope that are there for the progressively-inclined. At the same time, I’ve tried to avoid entrenching my ideology to…

In the wake of failed attempts by the leader’s inner circle to dispose of the Labour Party’s deputy leader: Tom Watson, the party’s divisive former head of communications tweeted: “Hard to escape the conclusion that the posh boy revolutionaries and their ally LenKarie [sic] really don’t care if UK Labour…

As the turbulent weeks of Brexit court dramas rumbled on, the constitutional lawyer, David Allen-Green had a running joke: “Remember everyone, constitutional law should not be this exciting” But when you strip away the intellectual veneer and break it down to its bare essentials, far from making eyes glaze over…

Whichever way we voted in the EU referendum, we must unite to stop Boris Johnson’s plans for a no-deal Brexit. No contribution to that fight is too small. ‘No-deal’ was never mentioned in the 2016 referendum campaign (whereas ‘a deal’ was, frequently). The British people have rejected a ‘no-deal’ Brexit…

The mother of all parliaments is about to host the mother of all battles. Here’s how it could play out… Strap yourself in, this autumn is going to be one hell of a rollercoaster ride. That’s because there is one overriding conclusion that can be drawn from the newly installed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s choices for cabinet: he is unequivocally aiming for a no-deal departure from the European Union…

Last week, the British ambassador to the U.S.A, Kim Darroch, stepped down after Boris Johnson, the overwhelming favourite to become the next prime minister, refused — six times — to back him during a live TV debate. The furore was sparked after internal memos criticising the Trump administration were leaked…