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It’s a fair question following Ed Miliband’s interview in the New Statesman the other day. The Labour leader concedes to have gone on holiday this summer without a mobile phone and avoided reading any papers or television news for the…
Boy meets girl. Boy takes girl back to penthouse apartment for a game of ‘strip billiards’. Boy is not very good at billiards. Boy has picture taken with girl (who, it appears, is equally bad at the game). Some wag present takes photos of…
156 years ago today James Keir Hardie was born into grinding poverty in a one-bedroom cottage in North Lanarkshire. It was a hard life. Labour’s original founding father was first sent to work as a message runner for a shipping company at…
So much of our political debate nowadays is viewed through a London filter. Housing shortages, fears about knife crime, worrying about decent secondary schools; they are all are legitimate concerns for people in every part of the country –…
Okay, I’m getting confused. Explain this one to me. Today we get the chance – the historic chance - to begin the process of removing once and for all a totemic, emblematic symbol of British inequality. Yet Labour MPs seem to be turning…
Here’s a snapshot of modern Britain for you. Additionally, it may also be a textbook definition of irony. This weekend we will indulge in a bout of flag-waving and simpering in honour of an elderly lady of modest ability (and immodest…
It’s becoming more obvious now. The wayward curls, the sagging jowls, the general air of world-weariness and dogged determination. Just as animals and their owners grow to resemble each other, so George Osborne is slowly morphing into the…
"I am determined to learn the lessons of why we lost here in Bradford” said Ed Miliband yesterday as he came to mop-up the fall-out from the party’s humungous by-election catastrophe. One of the most obvious – but politically painful –…
The Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland – a brilliant and thoughtful writer – has written a piece setting out why he will not be voting for Ken Livingstone in May’s London mayoral election (“I've backed Ken Livingstone for mayor before…
Last week Dave Watts was elected as Labour's new PLP Chair. But who is he? Kevin Meagher profiles the new "shop steward for Labour MPs": If dictionaries had photos, then it’s a fair bet that if you looked up the word ‘genial’ there would be…
What’s our problem with an independent Scotland? This is the simplest and most overlooked question facing the UK’s political leaders as they try to convince the Caledonian electorate to remain within the UK ahead of 2014’s referendum on…
“Sorry mate, there’s nothing I can do”. That, in essence, sums up George Osborne’s economic policy ahead of the budget. The Daily Telegraph yesterday quoted him saying the government has “run out of money” because it was all “spent in the…
