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Will Sarah Brown be Labour’s secret web weapon at the election?

With the death of Michael Foot, we also mourn the loss of a different type of Labour Party
The Paul Richards Column History will judge Michael Foot kindly, recalling his immense literary canon, the excoriation of…

How soaring inequality contributed to the crash
By Stuart Lansley Although global imbalances, excessive bank leveraging and reckless financial risk-taking helped trigger the meltdown of…

The Labourist tradition
By Andy Newman The main progressive political party in Britain for a hundred years has been Labour, which…

Everything to play for – introducing a day of Soundings thinking on LabourList
By Jonathan Rutherford We are living in an extraordinary crisis of liberal market capitalism. This historical moment belongs…

Over 100,000 contacts a week: Why Labour’s online campaigning will push the Tories to the Wire
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Watch Douglas Alexander: “new media is important, but it’s about having a…

More tributes to Michael Foot – 8 in the morning, March 4th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * More tributes to Michael Foot, from Neil Kinncok, Tribune, Gordon Brown, Ken…

Gove “ties himself up in knots” on daytime TV
Hat-tip: Left Foot Forward

The perils of a hung parliament – and PR
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB With the opinion polls momentarily suggesting a narrow gap between the Conservatives and…