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By Christine Chapman As the tenth anniversary of devolution approaches it is a good time to evaluate where we are in terms of the representation of women within the Welsh Assembly following the dramatic breakthrough in 1999. The Welsh…
By Joe Powell It is tempting to think that in times of recession Labour's commitment to international development should be downplayed. Focus is rightly on securing domestic jobs, ensuring people stay in their homes and providing help to…
From LabourList The Standard are splashing on details of an extraordinary phone conversation between Boris Johnson and Keith Vaz, where Boris appears to have done a Christian Bale over suggestions that he had given dodgy evidence to Vaz's…
I couldn't make the LabourList launch this morning but I welcome them on board. Knowing my old pal Peter was going to be there though I thought I'd send them this vlog, and I thought you might want to see it too. There's more videos and…
by Derek Draper I have been astonished this morning by a brazen attempt to smear me by Guido Fawkes and David Hencke of the Guardian. What makes this so reprehensible is that it is not about my work here at LabourList or as an ex-Labour…
By Ed Balls My message to David Cameron is: wake up to what's happening in the world. Do you understand the reality of this global financial crisis? And if you do, then why aren't you backing our action to get us through these difficult…
By Derek Draper You may have seen Paul Waugh's astonishing piece about the Tories changing Wiki following PMQs to make David Cameron look right. Well, that's just the start of it. They've been at it before. You can see all of the changes…
By Bob Piper I recently received an open note addressed to Londoners from Davey Hopper. Davey is the North-East Area Secretary of the NUM, and has been trying to get in touch with those in London who marched, argued for, and took part in…
By James Purnell Today's unemployment figures are bad. We will never forget that behind the statistics that will be banded around, the media today are real people. We will not repeat the mistakes of the 80s and early 90s and will never say…
By Linda Riordan The recent election and ingauration of Barack Obama has been, politically, a wonderfully bright moment in these dark days of the global economic downturn. 'Obama mania' really did grip everyone on both sides of the…
By Dan McCurry In the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire began a policy of land registry in the region that we today call Israel/Palestine. Local entrepreneurs offered to take up the title deeds on their behalf of the peasants and deal…
By Peter Mandelson John Prescott is putting me to shame. I met him on my way to the PLP meeting last night and he was chiding me for my lack of posts. Quite right too. He is setting a pace with his blogging exploits that some of us are…
