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Clegg’s plan for cleaning up the press: “Freedom, accountability, plurality”
Nick Clegg stepped up to the plate on the phone hacking scandal today with a call for widespread reform of the media, outlining the his three principles of reform: press freedom; accountability; and...
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Gordon Brown: Banking reform key to resolving eurozone crisis
Gordon Brown today told a meeting of progressives from over 20 countries that the eurozone crisis had to be seen as a banking and finance crisis rather than purely a crisis of deficits, debt and...
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Peter Oborne is wrong about the ‘unpopular’ liberal Left
Peter Oborne has declared that the last thirteen years of Labour’s rule can now be seen as a failed experiment, proving “that the Conservative analysis is better and more truthful”. The piece has a...
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Brown’s blueprint for reform of global education may soon become reality
With almost 70 million children of primary school age not in school, a figure set to rise by 2015 and not fall to zero as promised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), urgent action is...
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Brown weighs in on Scottish independence
. Gordon Brown last night made a high profile return to the Scottish political scene, taking Alex Salmond’s dream of independence head on. The former prime minister warned of the consequences of no...
View ArticleWatch: George Osborne gets bood at the Paralympics – while Gordon Brown gets...
Chancellor George Osborne was booed at the Paralympics yesterday when introduced to the crowd at the presentation ceremony for the men’s T38 class 400m… …while former prime minister Gordon Brown was...
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Risk of 23-year slump as Cameron now forecast to borrow double what Brown was
One wonders why George Osborne stayed in his job, because the future economic news is so bad. The economy is heading for a generational disaster, an event that, pre-election, the Conservatives warned...
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Brown: SNP’s “incoherent and ill thought out plans” play “Blankety Blank”...
After a fortnight which has seen SNP’s dreams of independence hit the buffers as their policy over EU membership unravelled in front of their eyes, the former prime minister Gordon Brown this weekend...
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Scotland’s big beasts go head to head (sort of) over independence
Two of Scotland’s biggest political beasts will be pitched against each other later today in the debate over the country’s future. For the pro union camp, Gordon Brown will make a return to frontline...
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Did the welfare bill really get out of control under Labour?
Gareth Millward is a History PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine In the light of the recent debate about social security spending, Gareth Millward has taken a look at a...
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Cometh the hour, cometh Gordon Brown
TweetCan Gordon Brown outmaneuver Alex Salmond’s political bluster? With today’s polling by TNS Scotland putting both sides in the referendum campaign on level pegging, the air of crisis surrounding...
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Brown warns of ‘Tory trap’ on devolution
TweetGordon Brown has warned of the dangers of walking into a Tory trap on devolution. Under the Conservative’s proposals for the future of Devolution in Scotland, drawn up by the former leader of the...
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The devolution debate gets ugly
TweetAs the UK government prepares to publish a paper outlining options on the future of devolution in Scotland following the independence referendum, the consensus that brought the unionist parties...
View ArticleBrown slams SNP’s constitutional navel-gazing
In what could be one of his last major set piece events before retiring as an MP, the former prime minister Gordon Brown, has echoed the words of President John F Kennedy by urging Labour to focus on...
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Once again on the myth of Labour’s ‘out of control’ spending
The Labour party got it wrong. Not, as is commonly supposed, by spending too much in government, but by allowing that charge to stick in opposition. After losing the election back in 2010, rather...
View ArticleScottish independence more likely as Gordon Brown attacks Tory tactics
Almost half of voters in Scotland believe independence is now more likely as a result of the way the General Election has been fought. With voters due to go to the polls two weeks today, the latest...
View ArticleTen seats to watch on election night
Northern Ireland Fermanagh and South Tyrone The most marginal seat in the UK in 2010, Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew took the border seat in the south west of Northern Ireland by just four votes....
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Did Labour overspend?
Labour’s leadership contenders have, depressingly, been tripping over themselves to tell a waiting media that Labour overspent in government. This seems as damaging for the future of the party as...
View ArticleWelfare cuts: who will lose out?
David Cameron is preparing to unveil details of planned welfare cuts, having criticised the current ‘merry-go-round’ system which sees low earners taxed heavily, and then handed money back as...
View ArticleGordon Brown targets overwhelming support for EU in Scotland
Amid the Labour Party’s internal navel gazing over the past few days, former prime minister Gordon Brown will seek to refocus attention on issues of substance as he intervenes in the debate over the...
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