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Two years ago I was told repeatedly by Tories and those who had given up on Labour winning that they would be 5+ points ahead in the polls by now. They aren't. The polls bend and fluctuate but actually, when looking at the averages, the…
Imagine if every time you invested in an asset, someone threatened to force you to sell it, cut price. Would you keep investing? Would you throw good money after bad? I don't think I would. Now imagine this happening as you were going…
This week I resigned as a company director. The very successful company I have been involved in in various capacities over most of my adult life is being sold. The owner retiring to live off the proceeds of her success. So this is a good…
The election campaign has begun in earnest. I know because the Tories have started photoshopping posters. Last time it was airbrushing David Cameron until he resembled a Ken Doll. Perhaps Barbie was the Worcester Woman of the 2010 election…
When I first left university, I worked in telesales for four years. I earned a very low wage which was topped up with a sales bonus. I didn't sell, I didn't eat (certainly the latter half of quite a few months were very lean at times). That…
The last time I was at a gathering of the Labour tribe is was Conference, and the mood was about as low as it gets. Since then we had the coup that never was and a further narrowing of the polls. So it was with some trepidation that I…
A good friend of mine has written a lovely book for young children explaining how elections work. In The Election the leaders of the Stripy and Spotty Parties have a debate the night before the election. Of course they do. It's obvious. My…
There was no question about what was going to write about today. OK, we're in the midst of the early salvos of the election campaign. OK, we're in the middle of an appalling crisis in the NHS. But as a writer, the appalling terrorist…
Tis the season... I was really pleased to go to the launch of LabourList's new pamphlet written by an inspiring group of candidates. Having read it, I feel the future is in good hands. I have hope - something I have been struggling with…
Labour Women's Network (LWN) are holding our Christmas Drinks event tonight. It is open to everyone and we do hope you will all come. (for those of you who find it hard to get to London, we will be holding events around the country…
This piece was inspired by the recent essay on the death of Social Democracy by Neal Lawson I find it impossible to envisage a time that I am not a member of the Labour Party. My feelings for the Party and it's overarching mission are as…
I have been thinking a lot about change. About how to achieve it and how to make it last. The very difficult realisation I am coming to is that the way we try to create change in politics - through changes to the law and changes to the…
