Duncan Smith praises least compassionate conservatives
By Will Straw On a recent trip to America, Iain Duncan Smith made a speech about “compassionate conservatism”…
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There is no doubt these were silly juvenile ideas but that is all they were, juicy email evidence or not
By Derek Draper You may have read about some emails I was sent in January and be wondering…
Labour needs to start playing a long game
By Laurie Penny On Wednesday I attended a press conference for John Cruddas’ and Andrea Nahles’ ‘Good Society’,…
LabourList poll
From LabourList UPDATE: The LabourList poll is now closed. Following Peter Beckett’s post this week, “What’s wrong with…
A lack of hostility: the debate within Labour
By Tom Miller For me, what New Labour turned out to be is a fundamental break with the…
John Prescott lazy? Pull the other one!
By Alastair Campbell It’s obviously becoming stand-up-for-oldies week. Yesterday David Frost on his 70th birthday. Today another veteran…
A fox on the run is not so sweet
By Julian Ware-Lane There are some subjects than transcend the political divide, or at least they should do.…
Does class matter any more? Of course it does!
By Mike Ion Last year’s “Tory toff” campaign prompted a plethora of articles and comment about whether class…
Building the Good Society: Compass / DL21
From LabourList Today saw a press conference on behalf of the UK’s Compass, and their counterparts in Germany,…
Europe’s biggest anti-racist festival axed by Boris Johnson
From LabourList Boris Johnson today announced that London’s anti-racist festival Rise, which brought 100,000 Londoners together each year…
