Ed Miliband is speaking at the Google “Big Tent” event this morning, and as we noted earlier this week, he’s picking a bit of a fight with them over their tax affairs. Understandably, most of the press coverage in advance of Miliband’s speech (and presumably afterwards too) is about Google’s tax affairs. That’s in part due to David Cameron’s unwillingness to challenge his adviser, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, when the two met earlier this week. The Downing Street media team [...]
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Cameron says no more EU-turns – Media roundup: May 22nd, 2013
Subscribers to our morning email get the best of LabourList – including the Media and blog round up – every weekday morning. If you were a subscriber you would have already received this in your inbox. You can sign up here. Cameron says no more EU-turns “After...
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Labour MPs and Equal Marriage – analysis, and some special mentions
It was good to see the vast majority of Labour MPs voting for marriage equality yesterday, although here are some special mentions - Iain McKenzie, Frank Roy & Mike Wood - voted FOR after voting against in the 2nd reading Anne Begg, Gordon Brown,...
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More evidence of that slick Downing Street media operation…
Ed Miliband is addressing Google’s Big Tent, and is expected to attack them over tax avoidance. So the slick Downing Street operation presumably want to get out ahead of that, right? Not quite. Here’s a selection of the headlines from Tuesday’s...
- Watson urges investigation of “supressed” Leveson evidence – Media roundup: May 21st, 2013
- Labour Equal marriage amendment gets Tory backing
- Whitewash report claims that there’s no such thing as DWP “league tables” for sanctions
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Where are the women over 50 on our TV screens?
Most people like to think that we live in a society that is fair and equal but for some it is still not equal at all. When it comes to TV presenters, women disappear when they reach over the age of 50. As part of the work of the Older Women’s Commission,...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Leader
That’s it. Enough is enough. I try to be reasonable. But you can only push somebody so far. It’s time to sort this out once and for all. I am fed up with this huge and growing army of sycophants and cheerleaders constantly bigging up Ed Miliband,...
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We do not stigmatise your country, Deputy Prime Minister. It is you and your party we find distasteful
Last Saturday a senior European politician wrote an article in the British press which made you want to shout at the computer screen. Not such an unusual event, you might think, but this was not a debater’s disagreement as one might have had with...
- Is party politics dying out?
- Equal Marriage is the most important thing – but Labour can’t let Equal Civil Partnerships get the “long grass” treatment
- Until Cameron spells out exactly what he wants to “renegotiate”, we’re all “Don’t Knows” on the Europe question
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Labour’s GOTV video – “Let’s change this country together”
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Labour’s latest Party Election Broadcast – “Together”
Labour’s new Party Election Broadcast has been released online. It’s built around Ed Miliband’s recent campaign visits on his “soapbox” – and on the importance of giving...
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Ed Miliband’s Local Elections Diary
The Labour Party have released the first in what is expected to be a series of Local Elections Diary videos from Ed Miliband (although it’s not strictly speaking a diary – it’s more of...
- Labour’s latest Party Political Broadcast – ‘Made by the Many’
- Miliband responds to Blair critique
- George Galloway praises the “cohesive, pristine, innocent culture” of North Korea
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