Feeling flat after Eastleigh
It’s difficult as a Labour supporter not to feel a little bit flat after the Eastleigh result. Strategically…
Luke Akehurst MP
What might be driving the Johnson/McCluskey war of words?
Yesterday I wrote about the row between Alan Johnson and Len McCluskey – now I want to explain…
Alan Johnson and Len McCluskey both need to calm down
I had been resisting the temptation to step in between Alan Johnson and Len McCluskey and shout the online version…
Labour has nothing to lose in Eastleigh and should throw the kitchen sink at it
Eastleigh wouldn’t be at the top of my list of seats where I’d be pleased by the prospect…
Oh dear. Oh dear. Owen Jones
I like Owen. He is a very bright, personable and decent chap. In terms of the Labour Hard…
A gesture of great political and organisational self-confidence
The list of 106 target parliamentary constituencies for the next General Election that Labour released last week makes…
PCC elections: How Labour’s vote changed – and the swing from the Tories to Labour
I’ve noticed that no one seems to have calculated the notional change in the Labour vote between the 2010…
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…
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…
