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This column has been on my to do list for a long time. I kept thinking "oh, I must write about that next time the right are attacking Bob Crow about living in social housing". I never thought I'd be writing it under these circumstances. I…
The Labour Party has more members than any other political party in the UK. In fact, according to Hansard we have more members than the Tories and the Lib Dems put together. Unlike these parties we have strength in Local Government all over…
One Nation. We use that phrase a lot. Because we use it so often, sometimes we are in danger of not thinking about what it actually means. To me, it means that we are a Party that tries to bring as many people as possible to our cause. That…
There has been much discussion on these pages and elsewhere about whether Labour should go into a coalition with the Lib Dems after the next election. Personally, I believe we should make sure we have a Labour government after the next…
MPs are paid pretty well. That's certainly true and it's is worth saying right at the top. But this financial compensation doesn't seem anything like enough to make up for everything that goes along with it. MPs work incredibly long hours…
Can you ever envisage yourself being delighted that a local hospital has been closed? Or a police station? It's pretty hard to imagine. But a truly successful NHS focused on early intervention and prevention would focus far, far fewer of…
If it is true that the smears on Arnie Graf being fed to the worst enemies of Labour are coming out of our own party then somebody has very real reason to feel extremely ashamed. But if they think that smearing our allies and denying the…
Political leadership is an incredibly tough needle to thread. It means different things to different people. Many look for the macho swagger of a Blair or a Cameron - the my way or the highway sense that no opposition will be brooked. It's…
I'm crying and I feel sick. The Lib Dems are not my party. So why is my reaction to them letting Chris Rennard off the hook so strong? It is quite clear from the statement from the internal investigator that the witnesses who came forward…
I didn't expect to become a blogger. In fact, my first ever blog post wasn't even that. It was an angry and heartfelt comment about the Damien McBride affair letting down ordinary Party members like myself. It seems that the editor Alex…
Last year, my last post before the Christmas break was a paean to love. I was reflecting a little bitterly on that as I prepare to spend my first single Christmas in seven years having embarked on a rather nasty marital breakdown. Then I…
Here are some things that have happened over the last week: On Sunday, news broke of the list of people who had been prepared by Spencer Livermore and Douglas Alexander to be consulted about how to win the next general election. I have…
