Opportunist oppositionalism?
By Darrell Goodliffe According to whispers emanating from the Westminster village Charles Kennedy, along with possibly four or…
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IPSA: A monster we created
By Darrell Goodliffe The head of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) communications operation has an annual salary…
Why is Labour so attached to Trident?
By Darrell Goodliffe All of the leadership candidates have talked about the need to ‘move on’; mostly, they…
Is ideology a factor in the leadership race?
By Darrell Goodliffe In some respects I am asking this as an open question because part of me…
The price of this reform is too high
By Darrell Goodliffe It is fitting that on the same day as Nick Clegg announced his package of…
Leeds shows we can beat the ‘Libservatives’
By Darrell Goodliffe One of things that went widely unreported following the general election was the good clutch…
Cut price politics is a threat to our democracy
By Darrell Goodliffe It probably isn’t that fashionable on the left to defend our ‘political class’ against the…
The big question the leadership contenders have to answer
By Darrell Goodliffe So, the various contenders are lining-up and setting out their stalls for the role of…
Moving from the flat foot to the front foot: How to deal with the Lib Dem surge
By Darrell Goodliffe Let’s be quite honest: Labour has been flat-footed in it’s response to the recent poll…
It’s time to stop running scared over the union link
By Darrell Goodliffe Let’s be quite frank. Lord Adonis’s ‘intervention’ in the BA/Unite dispute was a disgrace. Rather…
