Tory MP in cash row over hunting ban U-turn
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The League Against Cruel Sports has today written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for…
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Copenhagen: there is no plan B
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Gordon Brown spoke to the Major Economies Forum this morning, calling for ambitious…
Are we getting Twittered away?
By Luke Bozier / @Luke_Bozier There were a few big stories on Twitter last week. First, a long-running…
Why Purnell is right and Wheatcroft wrong
By Mike Ion / @MikeIon Labour in government “contributed almost nothing new or imaginative to the pool of…
Labour must re-discover ethical foreign policy if it is to exorcise its demons
By Mathew Hulbert The late, great former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook once rightly called for an ‘ethical’ foreign…
Behind the small state plans, the bigger picture is of Tory councils that are failing their residents
By Melanie Smallman After David Cameron’s speech last week, the verdict from many commentators was that he had…
Great expectations
By Chris Cook My first reaction on reading of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace prize, after just nine…
Forget nationalising the railways, we should mutualise them
By Nadeem Backus It’s a common story. Every morning I and millions of other people get to their…
The ShortList – October 17th
From @LabourList Catch up with some of the highlights on LabourList over the last week with the ShortList,…
The humanist values of community morality are also Labour values
By Kristofor Brown / @KristoforBrown Next Thursday, at its Annual General Meeting, Labour Humanists will launch a whole…
