2012: a year to fix the party
As our leaders sit back and take stock during the holidays, they might reflect, not just on the…
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Flynn: tolerating the intolerable
Last week, two things happened which produced condemnation by our politicians. Jeremy Clarkson appeared on national television threatening…
How we all look from the other side of the world
We are all taught at school about the five, or even the seven, continents. But in business and…
Labour vindicated on the economy? Not so fast…
On Monday Alastair Campbell ran a positive blog piece which points out that a billion pounds worth of…
Polling, polling, polling. Rawhide?
Freethinking with Rob Marchant (With profuse apologies to the late Frankie Laine, or the Blues Brothers, depending on…
Where the Tories are weak
Freethinking with Rob Marchant While we are still in the throes of reforming our Party (although that debate…
Community organising: check direction before use
Freethinking with Rob Marchant David Miliband, a man for whom I have great admiration and would like to…
Scottish Labour: everyone’s problem
Freethinking with Rob Marchant I imagine that, in the run-up to his conference speech – and having had…
Warning: Euro-iceberg approaching
Freethinking with Rob Marchant As we pass an unusually newsworthy summer on the domestic front with phone-hacking and…
Parliamentary recall: the return of gesture politics
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant So, parliament is to be recalled for a day to debate the disturbances…
