Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister challenging the power of Theresa May to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, says the Prime Minister has no right to start Brexit. It’s …
On the bank holiday weekend, when prime minister Theresa May watched the cricket at Lords, the stevedores of Southampton loaded a Swedish ship with the cars and machines that Britain …
The UK government could slow down immigration without breaking EU rules. Chartered accountant Philip Shirley claims a simple tweak of the Pay As You Earn tax system would discourage EU …
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 …
The new Far Right in Europe is exploiting the alienation caused by the dominance of neo-liberalism There’s an increasing number of violent events taking place across Europe, driven by …
The Most Reverend Edward Daly December 5 1933-August 8 2016 Edward Daly may be best remembered as the priest holding up a blood-soaked handkerchief who brought a dying teenager through …
Scottish politics has been torn post-Brexit vote by much the same issues as the rest of Britain, with independence the key difference. It may well turn out that Scotland’s …
Ppresident Obama and Chancellor Merkel’s hopes of getting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal finalised by December 2016 were dashed when it was revealed that EU and US …
Labour is pushing back against the neo-liberal tide, and Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election can ensure that process continues. The political agenda has been drifting steadily rightward for the best part …
The deaths of 262 miners in Belgium in 1956 still has resonance today as we contemplate the possible break-up of the EU. At 8.10am on Monday 8 August, the …
Jack Reed, a year 13 student at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, reports ‘frustration, fear and foreboding’ for the generation that were denied a vote in the …
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’.
Venal Vennells The Post Office’s annual report revealed a surge in the earnings of chief executive Paula Vennells, who is currently presiding over a programme of office closures and mass …
The UK Parliament boasts more ‘out’ LGBT members than any other parliament in the world. I was recently commissioned to interview some of them for the gay glossy magazine Pride …
The counter-revolution is in full swing. The African National Congress (ANC) is, in the words of our deputy president, at war with itself. The Cabinet too. The tight coterie around …
August 31 marked the end of an golden era in Brazil and its economic development. On that Wednesday afternoon, the Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. After six years …
I t is time for the British and Irish Labour parties to merge and form a single all-island party now that the crown of socialist champion is slowly slipping from …
Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May have more in common politically than they might wish to acknowledge. In the Prime Minister’s case the greatest problem is the 17 million-plus Brexiteers champing …
Standing in line waiting to board the EasyJet flight to Gatwick I was feeling completely powerless and only the hands on the clock seemed to be moving, so I felt …
If a picture paints a thousand words then the stark marginalisation of Theresa May at the G20 summit in the Chinese industrial city of Hangzhou supplied enough copy for a …
Once again the NHS is said to be on the brink of a financial crisis. Once again we are told that our health service is “not sustainable” in its current …
As summer draws to a close and thoughts turn to the new political ‘season’, Tony Blair has admitted that he is baffled by the rise of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy …
Traditionally a knight was a person granted the title by a monarch leader for service, normally military, rendered to crown and country. Although it later acquired the bogus veneer of …
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 …
