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By Sunder Katwala Shares in Ed Miliband rose once again inside the Westminster-on-sea bubble following his rallying call to the Labour party yesterday. Last year, he had to remain loyal to his boss and his brother, as the possibility of a…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Cleaning up political funding is back on the political agenda. Charles Clarke called on the government to "legislate in the final session of this Parliament to reform the system of political Party funding along…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft "Let me make it clear: they are not wrong to be planning cuts but they are wrong to try to cover up their plans for cuts. This is about honesty, it is about trust. This is about not taking people for fools". So…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Tom Harris is worried about calls for action on top pay, fearing we are on the slippery slope to repudiating New Labour. This seems to be driven by Harris's specific worry that "I imagine the so-called High Pay…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft If Tory communications director Andy Coulson knew about the systemic illegal activity which took place by his staff when he was editor of the News of the World, he is surely finished in politics and public…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft This post was first published on NextLeft. The BBC reports that Gordon Brown is announcing plans to consider electoral reform - with the Alternative Vote, rather than a PR-system. The details are hazy: I expect…
By Sunder Katwala It is a curious fact that so many of the all-time great British football managers have tended to be Labour. The great Bill Shankly's footballing philosophy was "The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each…
By Sunder Katwala Elliot Morley has been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, after continuing to claim for a mortgage that had been paid off. The report appears pretty damning: Morley stresses shambles more than conspiracy in a…
By Sunder Katwala Among the many galling features about this Easter weekend's tawdry Westminster village eruption which has led to the resignation of Downing Street adviser Damian McBride is not just that the behaviour involved has brought…
UPDATE: Sunder has responded to your comments at length. By Sunder Katwala Dan Hannan, polemical Telegraph journalist turned polemical MEP, journalist and blogger is the hero of the hour for the right-wing blogosphere for his rant against…
By Sunder Katwala Luke Akehurst is keen to stop all of this 'Change We Need' nonsense before we loved up Obamanuts get so carried away after Monday night's excellent launch that we end up infecting the lonely life of the Labour activist…
By Sunder Katwala Labour's greatest historic achievement is the post-war welfare state. The welfare settlement advocated by the Beveridge Report of 1942 and put in place by the post-war Attlee government was not perfect, but it remains the…
