The Tory and the confidence fairy
There’s a funny little Panglossian piece by Tory peer and former minister Michael Bates on ConservativeHome. As an…
Diarmid Weir
Labour must free the Press
The first instalment of Lord Leveson’s inquiry report into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press is…
The charges against Cameron and Osborne
The charge sheet against Messrs Cameron and Osborne as the architects of the coalition’s economic strategy is growing,…
What equality? Equality of voice
‘We need to be clear how equality, and what kind of equality (including of what), services our notion…
Economics and perception
I’ve read with interest the recent LabourList posts by Owen Jones and Emma Burnell. I think on the…
Austerity is political
That there is ‘no money left’ is presented to us as an economic fact of life. The Conservatives have embraced…
Keynes is all we need
By Diarmid Weir In his thoughtful analysis on LabourList of our current economic predicament, Anthony Painter quoted Nobel…
Blue Labour and immigration
By Diarmid Weir Immigration, by being freighted with so many unsaid and often unconsidered subtexts, is a toxic…
Capitalism needs a brain transplant
By Diarmid Weir The lesson of the New Labour years that ended in the biggest global economic crisis…
A game changing campaign
By Diarmid Weir The TUC conference starts today, and union leaders are declaring war on the coalition’s deficit-reduction…
