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By Darrell Goodliffe Ed Miliband is such a tease. One day he is pushing the unions away, the next he is cuddling-up to them and holding them close. This erratic display highlights the contradiction he finds himself trapped in - on the one…
By Darrell Goodliffe James Purnell told Newsnight this week that he wants to "help people love the welfare state" again. His prescription though looks more likely to kill it stone dead. Purnell starts from the wrong position - assuming that…
By Darrell Goodliffe Ed Miliband is quite right to see the root cause of the hackgate scandal as being the dominance News International enjoys over our media. His intimation - that we should look at dismantling it - is also the correct…
By Darrell Goodliffe Electing the shadow cabinet - the way it is currently done at least - is fraught with problems. Why, for example, do we only elect the shadow cabinet, but not the full cabinet? It seems odd and contradictory that…
By Darrell Goodliffe Speaking just as he had been elected leader, Ed Miliband had this to say: "We must always remember that British liberties were hard fought and hard won over hundreds of years. We should always take the greatest care in…
By Darrell Goodliffe Euthanasia is a tricky and emotive subject, for obvious reasons - it's not an easy subject with clearly defined lines of demarcation. Nonetheless, it is a political issue - especially so this week following the BBC…
By Darrell Goodliffe Whenever a person suffers emotional pain, a loss of some kind, there is inner turmoil. A battle and questions asked about who you are. Eventually, a new balance emerges, you pick yourself up and, having integrated the…
By Darrell Goodliffe Nobody should be surprised at the comments made by Vince Cable this morning for two reasons: a) he is only repeating what several senior coalition politicians have already said, he is far from the first to rattle the…
By Darrell Goodliffe Ryan Giggs has, allegedly, been a bit of a bad lad. So, what has this got to do with LabourList you may well ask? Well, had Giggs kept his litigiousness to himself and not sought a 'superinjunction' to prevent the…
By Darrell Goodliffe Recently, on LabourList there have been two articles that caught my eye extolling the virtues of the Alternative Vote system. Firstly, we have Neal Lawson who explains why in his view AV is the voting system for the…
By Darrell Goodliffe Two separate stories this week have drawn painful attention to fundamental problems with our democracy and our politics. I refer to the continuing expenses saga, the successful prosecution of Elliot Morley, and the…
By Darrell Goodliffe Greg Barker has landed himself and the government in a little bit of hot water today with his comment that this government is making cut's that Margaret Thatcher could "only dream of". I would be tempted to reply that…
