Situations Vacant: Leader of the Labour Party (ii)
Richard Robinson‘s Speech Bubble Dear David, Eds (Balls & Miliband), John, Andy & Diane, Following on from my…
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GMB leadership hustings: Live blog
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 CLOSING STATEMENTS Verdict: Andy Burnham really exceeded expectations in this hustings, but they…
Oona King speaks to the Guardian
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Guardian today features an interview with Oona King in G2. The wide-ranging…
Cameron needs to tone down China rhetoric
By Sonny Leong “We will work to establish a new ‘special relationship’ with India and seek closer engagement…
London can become the world’s first fully fledged Smart City
By Ken Livingstone When he coined the phrase “robotics” back in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov got a bit…
David Miliband: Labour should build a living, breathing movement for change
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I’ve just watched David Miliband on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. I…
Ed Balls’ Free Schools University Challenge
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 You may recall that after the last Queen’s Speech in November last year,…
Balls writes to Michael Gove on spending cuts
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This afternoon, Ed Balls has written the following letter to schools secretary Michael…
Balls and Burnham return to immigration debate
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Andy Burnham today returned to the debate on immigration that has emerged between…
A Dream of John Ball
By Peter Barnard Kenneth Harris’ biography of Clem Attlee states that Attlee’s favourite passage in books that he…
