Joe Goldberg Articles

The science behind job creation —The idea that politics is about the future is not a Clintonism; it is as old as any western philosophy. Ever since Socrates identified ‘the secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but creating the...

Dear Ken, I was there at Edgware Road on July 7 2005 when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a bomb killing Laura Webb, Colin Morley, Jennifer Nicholson, David Foulkes, Jonathan Downey and Michael Brewster, and maiming many others. The scenes at Edgware Road were beyond...

It is just months until the next general election, and, given the speed of cuts pursued and promised by the coalition in 2010, pundits had predicted Labour would return to power in a landslide. Indeed, even before the 2010 election, there was hubris in believing that...

A year ago, people were asking, ‘Where’s the beef?’ in Labour’s ‘One Nation’ policy agenda. While we’ve yet to be served up anything resembling a fillet steak there is certainly a sense of a some sort of protein-enriched amuse-bouche in Labour’s weekly policy...