The ShortList – this week’s highlights on LabourList

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This is the LabourList ShortList for this week, bringing you a weekly digest of the best content on the site over the last week and keeping you up to date with some of the current thinking in the Labour movement.

The Kerry McCarthy interview:
Labour’s so-called “Twitter tsar(ina?)” Kerry McCarthy sits down with new media guru Mark Hanson to discuss online communication, the Facebook generation and Draper!

PPC Profile: Andrew Lomas
Science, welfare and workers’ rights: meet the Labour PPC for Wycombe.

Election strategy:
The must read guide to what Labour needs to do to win the next general election, by former diplomat Brian Barder.

Next generation:
Alex Smith on why primaries are the inevitable result of a culture shift, and how Labour cannot afford to get left behind.

Opposition will be bleak enough without descending into civil war:
Paul Richards, in his excellent column, writes about the lessons from 1931, 1951 and 1979.

Capping private wealth would be an admission of defeat for New Labour:
Tom Harris MP rejects a Compass-proposed commission on high pay.

No more Loadsamoney:
But Joe Cox rebuts Harris, saying it’s unjust that the poor are 226 classes behind the wealthy.

Captialism on speed:
City excess and youth unemployment are the fightening results of casino capitalism, writes Anthony Painter in his excellent Labour movement column.

The lost children:
Labour PPC AnnaJoy David tells a moving personal story and says we need to reform the Hague Convention.

Hannan: yes, I’m shaping the Tory manifesto:
Interntational NHS-hater Hannan boasts about how he’s affecting the Tory party.

Debt free or date free?
Economist Chris Cook looks at what we might do with our national debt.