Sectarianism is alive and well on the Labour Hard Left
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst A normal set of responses from a Labour person to Friday’s Shadow Cabinet…
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Annual Conference – NEC Report
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst An honest assessment of Labour’s Annual Conference would be that it was purposeful…
Refounding Labour
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst OK, forget the niggles about the consultation process. Forget the bits about voting…
In defence of Ivan Lewis and the Purple Book
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst I have a confession to make. I reacted intemperately to the news this…
Gordon made the right call
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst Reading the press coverage of the revelations of Alistair Darling’s rows with Gordon…
On Refounding Labour
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst There was a little outburst of August hysteria yesterday with accusations flying about…
From optimist to pessimist
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst I’m normally an optimist about politics but the riots last week have left…
Rest in peace young comrades
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst I’ve put off writing about the attacks in Norway because like most people…
I told you so
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst There have been points during the last ten months when being an Ed…
Blair’s Progress speech gets 7/10
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst I was in the audience for Tony Blair’s speech to Progress on Friday…
