Introducing a week long special guest editor

Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

As of this morning, I’ll be away until Tuesday 8th September, sunning myself on a relaxing holiday to the world’s most relaxing destination, New York City. What made me thought this would be the right way to prepare for what’s undoutedly going to be a very busy and challenging year ahead, I don’t know, but it’s something I’ve been looking forward to for months. I’ll be catching up with old friends and old haunts, and putting politics to the very back of my mind for a few days…

In the meantime, Anthony Painter will be Acting Editor of LabourList.

Author of Barack Obama: The movement for change, Anthony is one of the left’s leading thinkers. If you haven’t yet read his exceptional Labour movement column, you can check it out here.

Anthony is going to be focussing largely on developing the idea he originally posted for the New Ideas series, on how we can continue to build a narrative of aspiration in the UK at this tough time, placing it in the historical context of the progress enacted by the British left. Knowing Anthony, it will be a superb week of fleshing out important new thoughts, and he’s got some very interesting contributions lined up, so stay posted as normal for regular updates throughout each day.

Anthony will also be sending the LuncthimeList every day as usual. If you don’t yet receive our free daily digest of all the new content on LabourList, you can sign up here. As well as keeping you up to date with what’s going on at LabourList, it also includes a brief aggregation of the most important material from the newspapers and our Comment of the Day feature.

When I return, we’ll be voting on your New Ideas for a Renewed Movement. We’ve had hundreds of manifesto suggestions over the past few weeks and months, and I hope we’ll be able to get them heard by the party around conference.

Now, over to Anthony…

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