Comment St George’s Day: ‘Labour should take on the challenge of appealing to England’ In a recent and quite bizarre argument, Russian-born ‘comic’ Kisin Konstantin declared that English-born Rishi Sunak wasn’t English… John Denham 23rd April, 2025, 6:00 am
Columnist ‘National flags and identity can be inclusive – we’re right to embrace them’ From the very beginning, Keir Starmer’s Labour has been proudly patriotic. The 2022 Labour Party conference opened with… Alice Perry 23rd April, 2024, 10:10 am
Columnist ‘Labour must reject assumptions about Englishness and promote its inclusivity’ An enduring myth about national identity in England – not least on the left – is that Britishness… John Denham 26th December, 2023, 8:45 am
Columnist ‘Taking SNP seats alone won’t fix unease over the union – in Scotland or England’ Labour’s stunning victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election opens the door to many more Scottish Labour… John Denham 16th October, 2023, 9:43 am
Columnist ‘Ministers like control, but Labour must offer radical, irreversible devolution’ Labour has promised a ‘Take Back Control Bill’ in the first King’s Speech. Aimed at England, it must… John Denham 29th September, 2023, 9:38 am
Comment ‘Labour must reverse council cuts and base funding on need, not local wealth’ As the saying goes, all politics is local. For all the spectacle and drama that Westminster politics brings,… Sir Stephen Houghton 5th July, 2023, 10:25 am
News When will local election results be announced in my area? Labour is hoping for a significant breakthrough in this week’s local election results, with senior figures talking up… Morgan Jones 3rd May, 2023, 1:23 pm
Comment St George’s Day: Labour can’t ‘take back control’ without devolving English government On another St George’s Day, England’s government is creeping onto the agenda. It is not English identity that… John Denham 23rd April, 2023, 8:00 am
Comment Brown’s reforms do not go far enough. We must embrace a more radical vision As Labour consults the public about the distribution of power, the real debate must be whether the Brown… John Denham 19th December, 2022, 1:30 pm
Comment Labour can and must transform the UK into a union of nations – here’s how England is the most centralised and unequal nation in Europe. Power is hoarded at the centre in Westminster… John Denham 13th June, 2022, 6:21 pm