While awaiting the beatification of St Jeremy the Wise, for which Liverpool cathedral (either of them) would be more appropriate that the soulless conference centre, I looked up his entry …
How To Be A Spin Doctor by Paul Richards Biteback £12.99 Sometimes it’s sensible not to take a punt. Back in the 1970s, while Labour Editor of The Times, I …
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 …
Foley:?The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews by Michael Smith Biteback £10.99 From his modest office at the British Passport Control centre in Tiergatrenstrasse 17 in Berlin during the 1930s, Frank …
Harold Wilson:?The Unprincipled Prime Minister? ed Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson Biteback £20 Like novelists, politicians come into and out of fashion. Most of them, anyway. Some just get completely …
Everybody and his dog seems to be having a go, so I might as well join in. After much thought and consultation with colleagues, I have decided to stand for …
I had never heard of Stephen Gibson, and I imagine neither had most people, until he appeared on the Today programme to bewail the modest profits of Royal Mail.
My political virginity remains intact. In a second attempt to win Aire Valley and Lothersdale, electorate 2,879, for Labour, I was soundly beaten by the incumbent Tory. Again
BEFORE SPIN by Keith McDowell Melrose Books £16.99
And so to South Wales, for a quiz night with Swansea West Labour Party. The event – in a rugby club, naturally (there are 26 in the city) – was …
Is former paratrooper Dan Jarvis stalking Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour Party leadership?
Considering how momentous the decision is, the Euro-referendum isn’t exactly setting the Wharfe on fire.
The BBC’s coverage of industrial disputes has never been fair to working people, says Paul Routledge
The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passarlay (Atlantic Books, £18.99)
Our politics can dispense with the service of royals
The Cooler King by Patrick Bishop (Atlantic Books, £17.99)
Not so much a powerhouse, rather more a poor house.
Postcard from Skopje: Eastern European slice of life is a far cry from nirvana
Low pay, privatisation and the last resort of workers
Yorkshire devolution: do these things come in cycles?
It’s not all bad news and it’s not all about economics
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose Yale University Press, £25
Faragemania could go the same way as Cleggmania
