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By Graeme Cooke We launched Open Left back at the start of the summer by asking the simple…
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Catch up with today’s political telly…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 “Sopel on Sunday” today features TV interviews with Alistair Darling, Alan Johnson, Harriet…
The ‘President of Europe’ and other misconceptions
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The sudden burst of media interest in the fading possibility of Tony Blair…
Repealing the Human Rights Act is nonsensical and dangerous
By David Carrington The argument between the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Conservative Party has highlighted a…
The denigration of science for political expediency is wrong
By Andrew Lomas / @andrewlomas Professor David Nutt was, until the end of this week, head of the…
It’s been a full week campaigning – but we’re making a difference
The Sam Tarry / @SamTarry Campaigns Column This week has been seriously busy; even for me its taking…
The problems with primaries
By Sarah Hayward I’ve followed the (rather one-sided) debate about the use of primaries with increasing interest over…
Economist: Tory group is shoddy and shaming…what sort of party does Cameron lead?
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 There’s been a lot of attack and defence this week about the Conservatives’…
For Labour people Blair for president should be a no-brainer
By Shamik Das / @ShamikDas Will he, won’t he? Each day the pendulum swings to and fro on…
Socialists have said no to Blair; without vigorous lobbying, so too has Brown
By Marjorie Smith This post was also puiblished at Left Wing Polemics. Gordon Brown’s snub to other Socialist…
