It’s hard to get angry about the 80s (despite the Iron Lady)
I have a problem. You see, when Ed Miliband says that the Tory-led government is taking up ‘back…
Paul Richards
We under-estimate the current crop of Tories at our peril
One of the most fascinating political pieces I’ve read in recent weeks is the pamphlet for Policy Network…
The plain fact is that the benefits system doesn’t work properly
It seems a long time ago in the wake of Maurice Glasman’s New Statesman article detailing his steadfast…
I don’t want to go back to the 80s
The comedy of Stewart Lee, who I went to see last night, works for me on several levels.…
The irresistible draw of by-elections
I write en route to Feltham & Heston, to give a couple of hours’ aid to Seema Malhotra…
There’s nothing ‘great’ about a strike
The TUC can congratulate itself on an impressive feat of organisation. The true picture is being disputed, naturally,…
MEMO: Status: Secret. Not to be revealed to our ‘partners’
Imagine my surprise when I went to a photo-copier in Portcullis House this morning, and there, on the…
Youth, empathy and placards
Yesterday’s unemployment figures are a serious indictment of the failure of the Government’s economic policy. Although parliament was…
Speaking the truth that no-one else dared to
Like many in the Labour Party, I was deeply saddened by the death of Philip Gould earlier this…
Labour must view the election of police commissioners as an opportunity
A year from today we will be in the throes of elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs).…
