Fast Forwards: Living in the new age of the train
By Andrew Pakes Gordon Brown’s commitment this week to high speed rail is the strongest signal yet about…
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Only Labour is committed, heart and soul, to the Minimum Wage
By Jack Scott / @Jack_Scott Next week, the minimum wage will rise to £5.80. Since it was first…
The Minimum Wage: Labour supporters’ most popular Labour achievement
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 LabourList readers have voted the National Minimum Wage as Labour’s biggest achievement over…
An unlikely alliance to end big donor politics
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Cleaning up political funding is back on the political agenda. Charles Clarke called…
Proposal #24: Re-nationalise the railways
By David Stuttle Among all great benefits to the development of the civilised world that Britain has created…
Brown: the special relationship has never been stronger
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Quelling persistent rumours that President Obama has “snubbed” Gordon Brown this week, the…
Proposal #23: Improve access to parenting classes and offer them free to those on low incomes
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB It’s well established that poor parenting runs in families and can have disastrous…
Podcasts from conference
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Young Fabians will be putting together podcasts from the Labour conference, which…
What will Gordon say?
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In an interview with this week’s New Statesman, Gordon Brown says nervously: “I’ve…
Unless we reaffirm our purpose to the British people we’re sleep-walking to a Tory victory
By Sonny Leong An outright Conservative victory is widely anticipated within the Westminster Village. Poll after poll shows…
