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Contested development

At the Labour Party conference in September Ed Miliband spoke about the dangers of a race to the bottom – of falling real wages and problems inherent in the unfair distribution of the benefits of growth. And if a rising...

The rise of the far right in Europe

This week, National Front candidate Laurent Lopez won a hotly-contested local council by-election in the southern town of Brignoles, France. Analysts have said that the Front National win in Brignoles, whose mayor belongs to the Communist party, could be a...

Welcome to... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Last week, Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga, warned Britain against leaving the European Union. He claimed that our ongoing membership is 'very important' for foreign investors and highlighted the dramatic consequence of having to set up our own standards...

Welcome to... The Ministry of Defence

There is something about defence which robs David Cameron of his surety of touch.

Whether it’s over negotiating defence cuts with a party seething at the scale of reductions made to the defence establishment and redundancies of servicemen and women; through...

Welcome to... The Northern Ireland office

Northern Ireland, as well as being an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, is a place that stirs up all manner of emotions in many of us. Cast-iron preconceptions of its politics and culture are common among those who have...

A very Fabian referendum

Calls for an EU referendum may not seem the most natural territory for the Labour Party. For years we have been the major proponent of close European integration within British politics, while demands for a referendum have been the preserve...

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