Wales Should Elect its Next First Minister
With Carwyn Jones standing down as Welsh Labour Leader and as First Minister of Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government needs to call a snap Welsh Assembly Election. When...
What Labour needs to become in 2018
If the tragedies and betrayals replete throughout Labour history could be summed up in common phrases, surely in the top 5 would be: ‘You cannot change anything without...
Why we still need the Green Party
Since the turn of the century, the Green Party has blossomed from obscurity to a major, professional party. Caroline Lucas was elected in 2010 and the Greens obtained...
‘The Tory Glastonbury’: The Conservatives’ hilarious attempt at winning back the youth vote
“Why is it just the left who have all the fun in politics?” whined Conservative MP George Freeman to the Financial Times last week. The politician, who represents the Mid...
The Green Squeeze and proportional representation
The Green Party in this past election managed roughly 525,000 votes compared to the previous election result of 1,157,630 votes. Slashed by over half, the party was squeezed...
Youth turnout in the 2017 general election- what was going on?
While the opinion pollsters are still crunching the data, initial evidence suggests that there was a considerable increase in youth turnout in this year’s general election, which has...
A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn
If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party officially “accepts the result” of the referendum, but ask yourself this question:...
The case against ‘Progressive’ Alliances
It’s taken a while for me to get around to writing this piece. It could probably have been written at just about any point since the 2015 General...
Ed Miliband Shares Some of the Greatest Responsibility for Brexit – Can We Please Stop Trying to Rehabilitate Him?
I often think back often to the optimism of 2010. Yes, Labour had lost an election, and thanks to the treacherous actions of the supposedly centre-left Lib...
The Greens must stand in the Copeland by-election
I’ve been a somewhat sceptical supporter of a progressive alliance, but the Greens simply must stand in Copeland. It would be to the detriment of both us and...