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As my colleague Conor has pointed out, there is quite a lot of good news coming out of the latest Ashcroft polling for Labour. But there are some worrying messages too. The polling in Southampton Itchen is much too close for comfort as was…
It is the cry of our age: something must be done! As we are better informed than ever we seem to know more than ever what a terrible world we live in. What a horrendous species we are. What horrors we can inflict on each other and on…
Boris likes alliteration. The Boris Bus, Boris Bikes Etc. Now there's a new one - the Boris Basket. A place some Tories are yearning to put all their eggs.As I've written before, Boris is a tricky customer for the Labour Party. He could…
Three days ago a group of prominent Tory women warned that the Lynton Crosby led negative campaign the Tories are running risks re-contaminating their party and damaging their electoral prospects. But since when did the Tories ever care…
The Right hate the Left pointing out the achievements that we have brought to any moment of national unity. Just remember Tory MP Aiden Burley’s horror at a telling of our national story at an Olympic opening ceremony that was warm…
Four years ago, when I first joined the NPF, I didn't really know what to expect. I had heard stories of course. That is was a talking shop, a stitch up, an irrelevance. My first experiences were not good. First in Gillingham and then in…
I am currently reading the brilliant book Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates. It is a powerful account of the way society treats women and girls differently in our expectations of them from cradle to grave. The examples given are heart breaking…
I've just read Charles Clarke's interview with the Huffington Post and I'm angry. I'm not - however - disappointed or let down. Over the many years of his career in hubris and internecine attacks I've come to expect nothing better from…
Ahh the railways. After the NHS there are few topics more likely to bring up the blood pressure of a Labour Party activist. They are a part of us and our story - a story of a benevolent state acting not for a profit motive, but for the good…
I don't have a natural tribe within Labour politics. I'm not hard right or left. I don't love or loathe Tony Blair and while I am a great admirer of Ed Miliband and a supporter of the kind of changes he, Jon Cruddas and Andrew Adonis have…
The Fabian Society have always been seen as a highly centralised organisation. Those who know their Labour history will know that they have long been seen as the instigators and defenders of big state socialism. But politics is largely a…
How does social democracy work when there isn't any money? That is the question that has been taxing those at the top of the Labour Party for some time. Our immediate, Keynesian response to the crisis staunched the wound and arguably…
