More than 50 hospitals in England have been given the green light to miss key waiting time targets this year to help ease their cash crises. The move is part …
A “kamikaze” plot to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as the democratically elected Labour leader has entered a summer of choreographed discontent by right-wing MPs prepared to adopt the discredited Trotskyist theory …
A House of Lords inquiry has found that thousands of lone migrant children are living in squalid conditions after being let down by European countries, including the UK. Youngsters face …
Overworked staff at a Ministry of Justice agency made a series of serious blunders in paying out complex criminal compensation payments to victims, a report by the government’s auditors has …
The vice-chairman of the now suspended Wallasey Labour Party blames former cabinet minister Tessa Jowell for spreading a folk myth that members called their MP ‘Angie the Dyke’. In a …
Chris McLaughlin and Paul Donovan The Labour Party is on the verge of a fundamental split as it faces what members and MPs believe is the biggest crisis in its …
David Hencke Westminster Correspondent The Liberal Democrats may finally be shaking off their disastrous performance in the last general election and winning council seats in the shires again. In the …
Ian Hernon Child poverty is on the rise again, according to a House of Commons Library research paper. Based on official figures, the paper showed that in 2014-15, 2.5 million …
Ian Hernon The GMB is backing test cases against Uber, a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company which the union claims is unlawfully denying their private hire drivers fundamental workplace rights. The …
Andrea Leadsom, the new Eurosceptic environment secretary and former challenger to Theresa May, is to be lumbered with paying out possibly hundreds of millions in European Union fines long after …
The number of workers fatally injured at work across Britain rose for a second successive year. There were 2,515 across Britain in 2014, 2,556 in 2013, and 2,549 in 2012 …
A new report on the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) has highlighted the risk of failure amongst key ministerial initiatives, including school building, the NHS, disability payments, the justice system …
James Douglas One in five established academy chains – or eight out of 39 – are performing substantially below the national average for attainment and improvement for disadvantaged pupils, according …
Gambia President Yahya Jammeh has ordered legislation to ban child marriage, saying anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 should be jailed for up to 20 years, and that parents …
The US and South Korea agreed to deploy a controversial missile defence system following intensifying threats from North Korea. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system will be …
Ian Hernon The cross-party Commons foreign affairs sub-committee has found that the finances of so-called Islamic State have been damaged, but urged the UK to do more to squeeze its …
Former Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith has emerged as the only leadership challenger to Jeremy Corbyn. Angela Eagle pulled out after coming second in a ballot of Labour MPs and …
Former shadow cabinet minister Owen Smith will stand for the Labour leadership. The MP for Pontypridd and son of Labour historian Professor Dai Smith said he could be a “radical …
Labour’s National Executive Committee rule after a marathon session that Jeremy Corbyn will be automatically included on the ballot in the leadership contest. . Some unions argued that party rules …
Angela Eagle has presented her Labour leadership challenge, claiming it is a bid to “heal the party.” Jeremy Corbyn said he was “disappointed” but would fight the challenge. Labour’s ruling …
The beguiling prospect of a long, bitter and bruising Tory Leadership contest was ended when Andrea Leadsom pulled out after taking flak for both her questionable CV and her “motherhood” …
I KNOW THAT TONY BLAIR KNEW there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before Britain and the United States launched the invasion. I know because I …
The emotions that led to the vote to leave the EU were bred amid the dying embers of the Cold War, writes Glyn Ford. Brexit’s deep causes were belligerence, arrogance …
Buses may be unfashionable, but they remain an important constituent of our social fabric, writes Trevor Hopper. There is some debate on whether Margaret Thatcher actually stated that a man …
John Holden steps into the quagmire of recent business scandals, and offers some suggestions for draining the bog. In recent months there have been widely reported cases of allegedly unseemly …
Kate Hudson reflects on Parliament’s decision to go ahead with Trident renewal. In July Parliament voted to replace Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system. Several hours of discussion resulted in an …
Martin Gostwick assesses the growing probability of Scotland holding a second independence referendum next year. Remain means Remain,” was First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s equally pithy response to the new Prime …
Can the first Black US President now be followed by the first woman? Ian Hernon reviews the momentous nomination of Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton made history by accepting the Democratic …
Throughout its history, Tribune has remained steadfast in three matters. First, and foremost, we are committed to Democratic Socialism and we believe that our country can be run in a …
Whatever the outcome of the Labour leadership contest, the party cannot – and perhaps should not – win a General Election, argues Mike Parker. Here is a question. How many …
The media have stoked up fear of immigration, writes Paul Donovan, and politicians of both parties have failed to handle the problem effectively. Lurid immigration front pages sell papers,” said …
Trevor Fisher reflects on lessons learned after his 50 years in the Labour Party The experience of more than half a century’s active membership of the Labour Party results …
Nicholas Costello reflects on what the UK’s vote to leave the EU could mean across Europe The vote for Britain to leave the EU is not the end of …
Those radical trade unionists of the extreme left who dragged an oh-so-patient and reasonable French President into the gutter of violent protest have marked “the bitter triumph of confrontation over …
We have a new Cabinet, but experts are warning that the problems of funding and staffing the NHS will continue to become more acute, writes James Douglas Three Parliamentary watchdogs …
Chris McLaughlin examines the battle for the heart and soul of the Labour party A senior Labour MP on his way to the ‘hustings’ at which the leadership candidates …
As the number of people arrested or sacked after the failed military coup reaches nearly 60,000, Murray Rowlands examines the background to the events in Turkey When is a coup …
So, the self-proclaimed “unity” candidate failed to unite sufficient support even with the ranks of Labour MPs for her bid to “save the Labour Party”. Angela Eagle’s abortive leadership challenge …
Ivor Gaber examines the BBC’s Referendum coverage and the false understanding of ‘balance’.
David Charter writes from Berlin on German fears after Brexit.
Chris Myant reports from Paris on the attack on workers’ rights that President Hollande is forcing through despite massive public opposition.
Martin Gostwick finds hope in Scotland’s majority knowing which way we want to go
The leadership crisis threatens the future of the Labour Party, argues Jim Mallory.
Kailash Chand fears for the future of a health service starved of funds by the economic fallout from the EU referendum.
Chris Myant continues his despatches from Paris with an examination of the boost given to the Front National by the Brexit vote
Reactionary populists are the victors of the EU refendum campaign, writes former Europe minister Denis MacShane.
It’s Groundhog Day for the Labour Party, after Labour MPs forced another leadership election less than 10 months after Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly elected to the role. I have repeatedly …
Leave, the European Union campaign, had to have a rhetorical device that would destroy the status quo. If not, as is usual with referendums and the binary choice, which isn’t …
Dystopian Thatcherism The transcript of the ‘mini-saga’ item broadcast on the Today programme on 14 January 1988 which so offended Mrs Thatcher reads: “Thatcherism: The Final Solution, by Vincent Hill …
With the gladiatorial clashes of the Labour leadership election and the circus of the Republican and Democratic elections, the election for the Secretary General of the United Nations, has been …
This is an opportune time to discuss the fundamentals about our beliefs and ambitions for the Labour Party. For the first time in decades, members have the opportunity to discuss, …
I t’s one of the richer ironies, among all the ironies snapping round our knees right now, that the greatest breakthrough in communication since printing turned out so quickly to …
Whisper it quietly, but Labour is in danger of overtaking the Tories as the ‘nasty party’. The current Leadership contest, which will drag on until the eve of the party …
Owen Smith came up to Sheffield to reinvent the wheel. In this case, the Ministry of Labour, abolished by Harold Wilson in 1968. He renamed it the Department of Employment …
Mansel Williams August 1944 – July 12 2016 Outstanding socialist councillors aren’t that common in Shropshire – but Mansel Williams was one of them. He represented Belle Vue ward …
Sir Tom McCaffrey February 20 1922-July 8 2016 Tom McCaffrey was a decent man and a pragmatic socialist who got caught up in turbulent times as press secretary to James …
When BBCRadio 4 presenter Sima Kotectcha visited her home town of Basingstoke to conduct a discussion about immigration just days after the vote to leave the EU, the very last …
Notoriously, he can’t keep his pecker in his pocket. As infamously, he has a long history of being unable to keep his hands out of other people’s pockets. And almost …
On the evening of July 15, while people still reeled from the shock of the Nice terror attack, news of another calamity broke. In Turkey, a military coup was underway, …
Keep calm and follow the Commonwealth! That’s the key message Ireland should adopt in the aftermath of the Brexit vote – and the route which the rest of the UK …
