‘Today’s Make Work Pay reforms are a landmark in party history. This is what it means to have a Labour government’
The purpose of the Labour Party is, and has always been, to deliver change for the benefit of…
Mark Ferguson
Thank you – and goodbye
After thousands of posts for LabourList, this is the hardest one I’ve had to write. Because this is…
A selection that makes – morally and democratically – very little sense
All of the focus in the party right now is on the Leadership, deputy leadership and London Mayoral…
Things fall apart (and how to rebuild the Labour Party)
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre…
When it comes to politicians, we may want something that doesn’t exist
So Chuka Umunna is out of the Labour leadership race only a few short days after he joined…
Labour’s long leadership contest – upsides and downsides
So Labour’s new leader and deputy leader will be unveiled at a “Special Conference” on September 12th, just…
Unity will only get us so far
Earlier today Harriet Harman reshuffled the Shadow Cabinet deck in the wake of last week’s electoral cataclysm. It…
If the leadership contest becomes a “Blairite, Brownite, New Labour, Old Labour” slanging match, we’ll learn nothing. And we’ll all lose
It’s only forty eight hours from Ed Miliband’s resignation as Labour leader and the level of nonsense being talked about…
The long road back
Dear LabourList Readers, When we are wrong, we need to say so. The urge to say that the…
Cameron is trying to rewrite the constitution to become a Downing Street Squatter
In 2010, the Sun printed a piece attacking a man “squatting in a luxury home near the Houses…
