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By Ed Miliband More than any other time in my political lifetime, I am conscious that the future is not yet written. The economic downturn is affecting millions of people. But eventually the storm clouds will pass. At this point the Labour…
In this age of mass communications and the 24-hour soundbite, getting the message right and spreading it wide presents new challenges, challenges that need to be met if we are to harness the revolutionary power of the web and build on…
By Lucy Powell I've written before about the return of two-party politics and the impact this is already having on the Lib Dems electoral success (or lack of it). Their recent very poor run in parliamentary by-elections and their…
By Tom Miller The inauguration has me thinking about the feelings of Labourites in the UK towards presidential candidates, Obama in particular. Many people, particularly on the Blairite wing of the Labour Party, were supporters of Hillary…
By Luke Akehurst Everyone on the left should welcome the ceasefire in Gaza and hope that it becomes permanent and leads to a peace process and an end to innocent deaths in the region. But I believe we should also be glad that the ceasefire…
THE INAUGURATION OF THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 17:27 Well, that was remarkably short. As expected, it went through themes of economic hardship, new cooperation and internationalism and a Call to Arms of service and…
By Alex Smith On the morning after the presidential election last November, David Cameron sat in his cosy Notting Hill living room and, in a burst of soundbitten ineloquence, declared to a YouTube audience that he'd slept through 'an…
By Douglas Alexander This week sees the inauguration of what they are calling the first 'YouTube presidency'. Obama's campaign was an inspiration to Labour supporters in the UK and to progressives around the world. Yet Obama's victory was…
By Rachel Reeves In my Fabian Review article "Why £20bn is not enough" and at Saturday's Fabian conference session "Fairness in a Recession" I argued that although government action to date was welcome, more would be needed to pull us out…
By Rachel Reeves In my Fabian Review article "Why £20bn is not enough" and at Saturday's Fabian conference session "Fairness in a Recession" I argued that although government action to date was welcome, more would be needed to pull us out…
By Benjamin Wegg-Prosser This weekend's polls show that politics is now returning to normal. Despite defying political gravity throughout the Autumn Gordon Brown has now been brought back to earth with a widening poll gap and a sense that…
UPDATES 12.25 pm Gordon has just nailed it, saying: "It's good to have someone in the shadow cabinet who is supportive of our policies on Europe, supportive of our policies on VAT and probably quietly supportive of a number of our other…
