Deira Diary

Roy Hattersley is dead. Not a British political great, Hattersley was though a postwar big beast. In this age of political 'pygmies'...

Amidst the factional infighting in the British Labour Party as to who will be next to lead the sinking ship, there is only one MP who has th...

Both main UK political parties have for more than a decade betrayed parliamentary democracy in favour of a US primary-type method for electi...

Michael Foot's reply to Margaret Thatcher in the emergency House of Commons' Falkland Islands debate in April 1982 was the speech ...

As the only Labour leadership candidate with a spark of personality and emotional verve has pulled out, I’m inclined to switch off until ...

Labour’s pragmatism (or waffle/procrastination) over Brexit, argues writer  Nick Cohen , is both psephologically illiterate and ideological...

We were given a key to the joint entrance to rooms 100 and 101 in Liverpool’s most iconic hotel, The Adelphi . Four years earlier I had onl...

Jonny Magnanti is the first actor to interpret Tony Harrison ’s still controversial poem, ‘V’ . Like Tony Harrison, Jonny Magnanti had ...

The Labour Party has forgotten that it's also the 100th anniversary of working class men getting the vote, all of them. In 2018 Lab...

I have just mailed my Labour Leadership ballot. It was a tough decision to bring myself to vote for “none of the two sad saps whose old har...

This morning’s news confirmed the dread I felt going to bed last light. The Brexiteers have won. Just as disturbing are the domestic party...

This morning’s news confirmed the dread I felt going to bed last light. The Brexiteers have won. Just as disturbing are the domestic party...

The Ragged Trousered Cabaret (RTC) and Hastings Friendship Group (HFG) came together for a gig at the welcoming  Owl and Pussycat Lounge ...

If I was remotely waivering about NOT voting for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader, the latest pronouncement of the man has clinched it ...

After last night's LBC Radio leadership debate I am starting to think that the UK Labour Party is doomed. Perhaps the best hope is the ...

Yvette Cooper, who is seeking the Labour leadership, has ministerial experience and been an MP since 1997. Tom Watson, candidate for deputy...

Labour has never been the “natural party of government” in this country. Harold Wilson’s claim was based on only one resounding election...

The seeds were sown in 1978 when the SNP and Welsh Nats blackmailed Jim Callaghan and his minority Labour government to hold a referendum ...

Ed Miliband said that Tony Benn was a champion of the powerless, a conviction politician, and somebody of deep principle. In other words a...