Don’t listen to the siren voices of abstention
The Guardian’s John Harris is a chap with strange politics. He purports to be a man of the left…
Luke Akehurst
We need to avoid appealing to an imaginary radical working class vote
The newspapers at the end of last week presented us with two apparently unrelated stories that are critical…
A highly unpredictable set of elections
Now that nominations have closed for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections we can have a better stab…
See you on Saturday?
I know a lot of Labour activists will be too deeply involved in the elections due on 15th November…
Conference needs to change – so split it in two
I’m a Labour Party Annual Conference addict. I’ve been to all except two of them in the 20…
A conference without fireworks – and this is a good thing
Usually I would be writing a column at about this point, a week before Labour’s Annual Conference, setting…
For the first time in a generation we have the whole centre-left vote behind one party
Mark Ferguson was right to puncture Polly Toynbee and Peter Hain’s separate overtures to the Lib Dems last…
The remarkable cheek of Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg’s statement that the Lib Dems could form a coalition with Labour after the next General Election…
Iraq, Genocide and the Kurds
Labour people used to have a very good understanding of the injustices suffered by the Iraqi people under…
Loose talk about being more leftwing – is it justified?
There seems to be a lot of rather loose talk at the moment based around how much more…
