Finishing off Thatcher’s privatisation agenda
By Darren Jones In the week when the first images of the 2011 film on Thatchers premiership are…
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Eric Illsley (finally) steps down: 8 in the morning – February 9th
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Eric Illsley resigns as Barnsley Central MP – triggering a by-election. *…
Ed’s inbox – February 8th
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he’d read these…
Swallowed whole
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand It is becoming clearer and clearer that anti-Labour tribalism is swallowing Liberal Democrat…
So, the alternative to Cameron’s vision: we’re offering what, exactly?
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant David Cameron has many failings, but he is patently not a racist. There…
Balls and Osborne clash at Treasury questions
Osborne welcomed Balls to his new role, through gritted teeth
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk The build up was immense. The Labour benches looked unusually full. The government…
In defence of the ECHR – an open letter to MPs
By Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform Dear All Members of Parliament; Having listened…
Big society? It’s a big con
By Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison “The ‘Big Society”, the Tories big idea, is a big con…
Cameron’s statement that “multiculturalism has failed” is clearly nonsense
By Diane Abbott MP / @HackneyAbbott David Cameron’s attack on multiculturalism is depressingly opportunistic. It was partly a…
