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Thinking beyond incarceration - justice and mental health

27 February 2013

In Britain today mental illness significantly increases one’s chances of imprisonment and impacts disproportionately on the most vulnerable. A paradigm shift in Labour justice policy is needed, moving away from policies of containment to preventing citizens with mental health problems drifting...

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Life after Gove

27 February 2013

Is there such thing as life after Gove? The current education secretary’s ceaseless and frenetic activity sometimes makes this hard to believe. But one day he will be gone and the chances are that a Labour government will have to...

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Labour must stand firm and fight for Britain's future in Europe

26 February 2013

David Cameron's much delayed, much anticipated and over-hyped Bloomberg speech will not resolve the internal Tory divisions on Europe. It is already clear that there has been no long lasting opinion poll boost. Indeed Labour appears to be strengthening its...

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Labour’s next state: the five big questions

25 February 2013

Time flies. The terrible defeat of 2010 feels like yesterday, but suddenly Labour’s 2015 manifesto is just two years away. The good news is the party’s policy debates have energy and vigour, but so far there’s a lot more diagnosis...

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Bringing working people back to Europe – the Labour way

21 February 2013

In addressing the Fabians European conference “Why Europe? The Left’s Answer” last weekend, I was asked to reflect on what kind of European economic framework would be best for Europe and Britain. As I, and many others, have argued from many...

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Can climate change keep young people engaged with Europe?

21 February 2013

Ed Miliband’s response to David Cameron’s pledge to hold an ‘in-out’ referendum after the next election has been criticised by some on the left for its perceived lack of clarity. What is crystal clear is that, should a referendum be...

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