Technology isn’t just something for geeks to worry about
If you Google ‘Ed Miliband,’ you quickly get the old stuff about him being a bit of geek.…
Jim Knight
The case for a Rural Living Wage
As a minister at the old Department for Children, Schools and Families, I was very proud when Ed…
How I used Twitter and Storify to write a parliamentary speech
Yesterday was the first day back in the Lords for over two months and we were debating improving…
Why did coastal towns stop voting Labour? And how do we win them back?
This week Rob Williams argued in his article on coastal towns that they were a key battleground for…
One-nation Labour
Tomorrow the Lords will have its first chance to debate the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill. This regulation of…
Taking the pressure off
It was in George Osborne’s 2009 Party Conference speech that we first heard his sound bite “we’re all…
View from the trenches
By Jim Knight After around two dozen days of debate and scrutiny, the AV Bill, or Parliamentary Voting…
The diamond candidate has emerged
By Jim Knight Last week I was given a copy of “The Audacity to Win” by David Plouffe,…
Employee ownership: happier workers, more productive businesses
By Jim Knight MP / @JimKnightMP As Britain came out of the 80’s recession I was leaving university.…
