Funny and even a little flirtatious – Ed excels at Q & A
Ed excels in Q & A. It is his element. The delegate sat next to me turned to…
Emma Burnell
The debate on party reform has only just begun
The Party reform debate was lively, but relatively well humoured. The leadership remained at pains to stress the…
We get the politics we deserve – so let’s deserve better
My first ever blog post for this website (or indeed anywhere) was outlining my disgust at the revelations…
Who’s afraid of the big bad society? No one, after the Lobbying Bill gets through
One of my earliest memories of how mad left wing politics got in the 80s is of listening…
FAO Ray Collins: A modest proposal
Labour doesn’t have a funding crisis…yet. But the task of avoiding one as a result of the (Ray)…
The value of debate
I hope you will forgive me for what will – inevitably – be a rather self-indulgent post. I…
Body image is not the stick with which to beat our opponents
Twitter has been aflame this morning with jokes about David Cameron going topless on the beach on holiday.…
Are things only going to get better?
Labour are not having a great summer. Another day, another bad poll for Ed Miliband. Another slew of advice…
This is an abuse of the law
I am conflicted over Wikileaks. I can see the virtues of secrecy but also of transparency and would…
We can’t all be right and we can’t all be popular. And sometimes it is impossible to be both…
This week, UKIP MP Godfrey Bloom has got himself in a lot of trouble by using the phrase…
