Paul Embery

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist, pro-Brexit campaigner and 'Blue Labour' thinker

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The Red Wall won’t be returning to Labour anytime soon Keir Starmer's speech contained little for England's northern working class

11 Oct 2023

What happened to the anti-war Left? This once reliably vocal faction has gone quiet

01 Mar 2023

Could Labour really become the party of law and order? The Opposition will need more than new slogans to become serious about crime

02 Jan 2023

Labour would be wrong to celebrate Momentum’s demise The campaign group tapped into some popular issues

24 Nov 2022

Nigel Farage’s latest relaunch has a fatal flaw Seeking to build a populist movement on libertarian economics is a fool's errand

25 Oct 2022

Labour is right to embrace the national anthem The party has a patriotism problem — and Keir Starmer knows it

21 Sep 2022

The scapegoating of the Grenfell firefighters

14 Jun 2022

Banning Russian players from Wimbledon is morally wrong It's unfair to make citizens pay for the crimes of their nation’s rulers

21 Apr 2022

What Starmer can learn from Corbyn

19 Apr 2022

Don’t turn the Ukraine refugee crisis into a new normal Ultra-liberal immigration policies are domestically divisive

01 Apr 2022

Labour is still losing

10 Jan 2022

The far-Right won’t rise again

04 Nov 2021

The Left’s shameful tribalism

19 Oct 2021

Does Sir Keir have the guts to rescue Labour?

25 Sep 2021

The myth of Blue Labour Boris Economically and socially, the Prime Minister remains an instinctive libertarian

10 Sep 2021

My fight for free speech

07 Aug 2021

Leavers were right about immigration

04 Aug 2021

How patriotism came home

12 Jul 2021

Batley won’t save Labour

05 Jul 2021

Don’t dismiss the booers as bigots BLM has alienated large chunks of the country — and it shows

07 Jun 2021

Don’t be fooled by the Tories’ Big Government rhetoric Ben Houchen shows the Conservatives are still wedded to free markets

12 May 2021

Labour isn’t working

08 May 2021

Sorry Sir Keir, attacking ‘Tory sleaze’ is a dead end Voters care more about the issues affecting their everyday lives

30 Apr 2021

The European Super League shames the people’s game The plan violates the spirit and ethos of the sport

19 Apr 2021

The Brexiteer who could have saved Labour

05 Apr 2021

Labour could lose Hartlepool

19 Mar 2021

Another career sacrificed on the altar of progressive opinion James Moore's transgression? Upsetting some people on social media

04 Mar 2021

The Fire Brigades Union has nothing to apologise for Throughout the pandemic, firefighters have worked for the national interest

22 Jan 2021

Why the Twitter pitchforks came for me over an NHS statistic Insecurity over inconvenient facts quickly leads to anger and a mob mentality

29 Dec 2020

Two cheers for Liz Truss She is right to call out identity politics, but it is not exclusively the Left's fault

18 Dec 2020

Will Labour ever repent?

11 Dec 2020

Why is the Left calling me a fascist?

27 Nov 2020

The real crimes of Grenfell are coming out — and the media is silent A rigged safety test should be front page news

18 Nov 2020

Is Corbyn really an anti-Semite?

30 Oct 2020

Will there ever be another Frank Bough? The BBC presenter's success would be near impossible today

26 Oct 2020

McCluskey is playing right into Starmer’s hands The electorate won't care about Unite’s gesture of defiance

08 Oct 2020

How hysterical leaders fail workers

02 Oct 2020

Parliament’s pathetic Covid response

22 Sep 2020

Full employment is making a timely comeback Gordon Brown is reviving a core Labour idea, neglected since the 1980s

11 Sep 2020

What Labour learned from a year of Boris

24 Jul 2020

The misguided mission to mask us

17 Jul 2020

The Left’s shameful silence on China

13 Jul 2020

Dear Harry, maybe go back to ribbon-cutting? The prince’s conversion from a royal to the high priest of wokeness is nauseating

02 Jul 2020

Who dares resist the Thought Police?

26 Jun 2020

When will the trade unions speak up? They sit idly by while workers face ever tightening constraints on their freedoms

15 Jun 2020

When will we stop fetishising youth?

11 Jun 2020

Ben and Jerry’s: your moral saviour Is there any creed more unedifying than woke capitalism?

04 Jun 2020

Supporters of Emily Maitlis should be careful what they wish for One day, the tables might turn

28 May 2020

Whose side is Labour on?

26 May 2020

How will the Tories fix the Covid fracture?

29 Apr 2020

Why we must resist the corona-tyrants

01 Apr 2020

Who will stand by the workers?

19 Mar 2020

Why I won’t be celebrating Brexit

31 Jan 2020

OK Lisa Nandy, I’ll give you my vote The Wigan MP is the least uninspiring of the Labour leadership candidates

24 Jan 2020

Leavers, not Remainers, deserted Labour in 2019 A spurious claim is being made by some in the party to deflect criticism over the second referendum pledge

16 Jan 2020

A manifesto to rescue Labour from irrelevance

15 Jan 2020

Why liberals can’t understand English pride The sense of Englishness was heightened among those who voted for Brexit

09 Jan 2020

Race is a bad way to target a scholarship — black or white Once you start going down the road of dividing people by their race, there's no going back

01 Jan 2020

The town that should shame our politicians

26 Dec 2019

Is this the end for Labour?

13 Dec 2019

Why Glasgow deserves better

05 Dec 2019

Now the Illiberal Democrats ban Catholics A Lib Dem candidate was deselected on the grounds that he is an orthodox Roman Catholic

22 Nov 2019

The royalty loyalty of the working classes

21 Nov 2019

Labour must come to its senses over Freedom of Movement Voters have had enough of their communities being collateral damage in the game of global capitalism

14 Nov 2019

We should defend the right not to wear a poppy There is far too much demand for rigid conformity in thought, word and deed

07 Nov 2019

Will Brexit tear Belfast apart?

04 Nov 2019

MPs can’t be crybabies Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick revealed on the Victoria Derbyshire programme that some MPs had been in tears during Saturday’s parliamentary sitting — I have to say I find it all a bit feeble....

24 Oct 2019

Why Poland’s Law and Justice Party appeals That Poland currently enjoys an economic growth rate superior to many of its European neighbours should command attention...

18 Oct 2019

As a headstrong activist, I was a dangerous thing

17 Oct 2019

Why is Stella Creasy shutting down debate?

11 Oct 2019

‘Stop funding hate’ is a dangerous campaign Sometimes the campaigns that appear the most unthreatening and innocuous turn out to present the greatest danger...

02 Oct 2019

How Labour could win back its people

27 Sep 2019

Stephen Kinnock Interview: the Labour Party is in danger I sat down with Stephen Kinnock MP at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, to discuss his prospective Brexit deal and the future of the party...

24 Sep 2019

You wouldn’t think it, but David Lammy was once a thoughtful MP Lammy’s meltdown over Brexit, his descent into the worst kind of racial politics.

19 Sep 2019

Who will speak for today’s working class?

18 Sep 2019

Where are our unions when we need them most?

10 Sep 2019

Labour’s Brexit shambles

06 Sep 2019

Will Boris lose his seat?

19 Aug 2019

Caroline Lucas’s crackpot proposal

12 Aug 2019

The town that should shame our politicians

05 Jun 2019

How to fix Britain after Brexit

09 May 2019

Why does the Left sneer at the traditional working class?

05 Apr 2019

Labour should be careful what it wishes for

05 Mar 2019

The Trade Union Club for liberal cosmopolitans

19 Feb 2019

Our political class is afraid to govern

17 Jan 2019

The truth about ‘liberal’ London

28 Dec 2018

Politics from the people’s perspective

24 Dec 2018

How multiculturalism divides us

05 Dec 2018

Why we have to let the morons laugh at Grenfell

09 Nov 2018

The absurd ageism of votes at 16

23 Oct 2018

The fake patriotism of the liberal Left

26 Sep 2018

Labour’s conspiracy of silence on immigration

04 Sep 2018

Elitist Britain is a closed shop

02 Aug 2018

Why won’t our spineless politicians stand up for the family?

18 Jul 2018

Brexit voters weren’t duped by propaganda

26 Jun 2018

The left-wing zealots are threatening our freedom

19 Jun 2018

The political void that Labour needs to fill

05 Jun 2018

Why did union leaders abandon the workers?

24 May 2018

The truth about ‘liberal’ London

03 May 2018