There's another election campaign underway, but it's relatively low key. The position of Chancellor of the University of Manches...

I did a session with about 100 students at Stockport College during the election campaign.  On reflection, in so many ways, it was my fa...

I found myself thinking a lot during the election campaign about that famous saying from Norman Kirk - that people just want someone to lov...

I've left this reflection until last because it will inevitably draw on the debates around the leadership and the personalities pushing ...

1. Understand change and engage in it Labour only wins when we contest the national conversation - 1945, 1964, 1997. A country for heroes,...

At the manifesto launch, members junior and senior, 14-94 When I rejoined the Labour Party last year it was very much with the General E...

Ed Miliband.  "Your leader is a plonker and I wouldn't let him run a shop, never mind the country." Ouch. That came from a h...

OK, I'm going to take a week to work this through. I've got an incredible amount of thinking and sorting to do, as well as computing...

Yes it's been long, and yes I still feel strong. Into the half light, Another velvet morning for me Thank you to everyone who j...

Picture by Arthur Procter Marple's Market Street has lost an institution this weekend with the retirement of Alan "the Paint...

Labour have made a good start to the election campaign - but the relentless negative attacks by the Tories and Liberals will surely backf...

In a profile in the current issue of the Marple Review newspaper I was asked a number of light personal questions, alongside the other ele...

I spoke at the Discuss debate on Democracy on March the 11th. I was speaking AGAINST the motion that Democracy is Broken. Here's my c...

We had a very successful fundraiser for the parliamentary election campaign last night. My election agent Navendu (pictured right) did ...

The revulsion and shock at the antics of Chelsea's throwback mob on the Paris Metro proves one thing: we've come a long, long wa...

We live in such a vibrant community, full of energy, people with ideas as well as a setting in an area of stunning natural beauty. One o...

I took a trip down memory lane last Friday to Pimlico, central London, where I shared a flat with my mate Chris Lodge through 1991 and 199...

Last night we watched our favourite episode of The Thick of It, Armando Ianucci's savage political satire. It was the hour long specia...

Campaigning for our NHS in Hazel Grove. Against TTIP and creeping privatisation. via Tumblr http://ift.tt/1JlVsHZ

These figures show George Osborne has broken his promise to balance the books by this year and national debt is still rising - Chris Leslie ...