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As a Dad, I worry about the message that Page 3 gives to my children, namely that it’s ok to objectify women. This outdated feature belongs to a sexist era and it’s extraordinary that it still exists at all. How can we talk about equality…
“What do you think of Western civilisation?” A journalist once asked of Gandhi. “I think it would be a very good idea” he replied. I feel the same about George Osborne’s so-called pension ‘reform’. As I wrote yesterday, the Chancellor is…
When David Cameron talks about the global race, he’s right. For Britain to be a success story, we have to compete internationally. The question for Labour though is what kind of team do we want to be to win this country gold? How can we…
At his party conference last year, David Cameron declared our country was in a global race. He said it meant "an hour of reckoning for countries like ours. Sink or swim. Do or decline". With a flourish he added that it was a duty and an…
Lynton Crosby, the ad man who likes his own PR a little too much, has become the barnacle on Cameron’s boat. What’s the golden rule? When the spin-doctor becomes the story, it’s time to go. When it’s the strategy guy, it's even worse. Every…
After a week long road trip through the shires of England, thousands of road and rail miles tramped, has it been worth it? Have the sleepless nights and long days of the short campaign, inLabour’s most difficult set of elections in the…
The sniping and spinning has already started. David Cameron is being warned he needs to lose fewer than 400 seats in next week’s Council elections if he is to hold onto the Tory leadership. Ridiculously overplaying the expectations…
As we go into the final few days campaigning there has to be one clear message that everyone we speak to understands. And that’s this. Don’t let the Tories get away it – vote Labour in London on Thursday. A Tory mayor and a Tory government…
By Tom Watson MP / @Tom_Watson An intelligent, brutal analysis of the current consultation on UK filesharing from Mo over at Tumbled Logic (see "UK file sharers to be cut off -justification". Those points are: * Nobody actually knows how…
By Tom Watson MP / @tom_watson Yesterday's announcement that the Government is considering significantly increasing the penalties for people who are accused, by rightsholders, of illicit filesharing is a mistake that could have far reaching…
