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Wednesday's Budget was notable for two things; one was the continued viciousness of what is probably the most right-wing Chancellor of modern times. Secondly, however, for me and many others it was of those depressingly rare instances when…
Mark Ferguson complains that Labour activists are being sent onto the doorstep "naked". Thankfully, for their health, Mark is referring to our lack of substantive policy to talk about on the doorstep.He is right and I think his concern is a…
Scotland, and its potential independence, is currently a big political issue. The self-interested bickering of David Cameron and Alex Salmond has opened up a space for Labour to step-forward not just as defenders of the union but partisans…
David Cameron told an audience in Oxford - celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible - that the UK is a “Christian country and we should not be afraid to say so”. You can't help but think this is going to be another stick…
One thing we are all painfully aware of is that if Labour is to succeed at the next General Election then it will have to do so in a political terrain that is much changed. We are all aware of the changes brought about by the existence of a…
By Darrell Goodliffe Ed Miliband seems to be staking an awful lot on giving registered supporters a vote in the affiliates section of the electoral college that elects our leader. Considering it's an idea which according to the last…
By Darrell Goodliffe This week, the long-awaited, but probably not that eagerly awaited proposals on the new constituency boundaries were released. The remit given to the Boundary Commission was to reduce the number of MPs and to 'equalise'…
By Darrell Goodliffe One of the undoubted low points of Ed Miliband's leadership thus far was his response the the #j30 strikes. The now infamous 'robot interview' in which he repeated the same line about both sides 'getting round the table…
By Darrell Goodliffe A very widespread, and important, tactical debate exists within both the Labour Party and the wider movement over what strategy we should pursue to deal with the likes of the English Defence League. Of course, we all…
By Darrell Goodliffe You would think the above is stating the pretty obvious, but sometimes I do wonder. Thinking on party reform being influenced by the Democrat model does, as it was rightly pointed out to me on Twitter last night, go…
By Darrell Goodliffe It is with an increasing sense of anger and despair, in about equal measure, that I have followed the development of the Refounding Labour "consultation". I put consultation in quotation marks because I am increasingly…
By Darrell Goodliffe It is awfully tempting and yes understandable to call for the state to do something, anything, in the face of events like the riots of the last week. Politicians, who seek to justify their position, are usually more…
