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On Wednesday it was reported that the Lib Dems are discussing a offering a lowering of tuition fees in their manifesto for 2015. Now I don’t think much of the Lib Dems senior Comms and Strategy team. But even I don’t think they’ll allow…
Nick Clegg has started the New Year as he means to go on – further tying himself and his hapless Party to the fortunes of George Osborne’s failed economics and torpedoing his own differentiation strategy. His article in yesterdays’ Times…
I want to talk about love. Not romantic love (though that’s great too) but communal love. Before you drop your knitting, I’m not talking about orgies either. Or swinging or any of the other sexual activities your filthy mind can conjure up!…
2012 has been a remarkable year in the fortunes of Ed Miliband. He’s had political and professional successes, But he’s also gone from being “too ugly to be Prime Minister” to being an “unlikely sex symbol”. OK, a puff piece about a…
There are several claims made for votes at 16 which are decidedly spurious. I don't believe - for example - that giving 16 year olds the vote will increase participation. If anything, it could mean that while more people vote, a smaller…
It’s very easy to be cynical about the Labour Party’s policy making process. My God is it easy. In fact I’d go so far as to say that it’s not just easy, but the rational thing to do. If we take Einstein’s definition of insanity as “doing…
There was some degree of upset last week when Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby tweeted the following message to departing Tory MP Louise Mensch: “Shut up Menschkin. A good wife doesn’t disagree with her master in public and a good…
Oh Ken. I wish this were something I didn't feel I had to write. I hope this article is redundant. I hope it's unnecessary and will result in nothing more than a response of "but of course!" But the truth is I do have to ask. The truth is…
Next month I am delighted that I will be speaking on the platform at the Labour Women’s Network Political Day. Labour Women’s Network are a superb organisation. They work tirelessly to promote and support women candidates at every level of…
For the last two years I and many others have called and called again for political panels in general – and particularly those around the Labour Party Conference – to be a bit more gender balanced; to at least have one woman speaker on…
Thanks to one of the best measures in the Refounding Labour changes every CLP has been given a free pass for their delegate, and so several CLPs have had the financial barrier to attendance lifted. Therefore there will be more conference…
This will be a hard piece to write well, I am sure by the end of it I will not be entirely happy with all the contents, but I think it’s worth trying. Part of the reason I suspect I will fail is that I am conflicted about assigning gender…
