Unite
Inside Labour’s fight with the unions
By the end of the year, Britain may be one of the few countries in the democratic world where the…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
Counter-strike
Trade unions have ceased to serve working people. It’s time to act against them
Len the loser
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
The Roman trade unions
With Len McCluskey, general secretary of the union Unite, keen to ensure ‘his’ members choose the next Labour leader, and…
Can the new Northern Powerhouse supremo make Leeds and Manchester work together?
A doff of my flat cap to Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs economist who has been made a peer,…
How to deal with the Blob
Michael Gove has been under fire this week for ‘sacking’ Sally Morgan as chair of Ofsted. You’d think he’d be…
The Spectator’s Notes
The most extraordinary thing about the scandal of Unite at Grangemouth and in Falkirk is how long it took the…
