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By Ellie Gellard / @BevaniteEllie There's a wonderful piece in Le Monde, brought to my attention by Paul Waugh, who links to a hideous Google translation. I thought I could do a bit better so sat down ready to give it a go when all of a…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Alastair Campbell has made a Vlog on the TV debates, why the hype doesn't matter and why Gordon's substance will shine through. UPDATE: Watch Cameron losing his rag in PMQs. I increasingly dislike…
By Jonathan Rutherford Since 1945, Labour has been the principle electoral vehicle for Britain's progressive aspirations, but it has reached a watershed. Its three election victories from 1997 were historically unprecedented, and yet it is…
By Darinka Aleksic In 2008, the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament saw the most serious attempt to restrict abortion rights in Britain in the last two decades. Since then, apart from occasional…
By Ella Rolfe International Women's Day, following hot on the heels of the most important Iraqi election in five years, is not likely to get much attention here. But questions of women's role in rebuilding Iraq feature high on both domestic…
By Sarah Mulley International development should be counted as one of Labour's biggest successes in government. The creation of the Department for International Development (DfID) and an increase of more than 140% in real terms aid spending…
As part of LabourList's link-up with Soundings today, here we publish extracts from a roundtable with Georgina Henry, Simon Bucks and Julian Petley with questions from Joy Johnson, about what the future holds for the media. Georgina Henry…
By Stuart Lansley Although global imbalances, excessive bank leveraging and reckless financial risk-taking helped trigger the meltdown of 2008/09, the crisis has it roots in the rising income and wealth gap, and the way a new domestic and…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Watch Douglas Alexander: "new media is important, but it's about having a conversation with the voters." This month's Wired magazine, published today, has an interesting 6,000 word essay by Prospect's…
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB With the opinion polls momentarily suggesting a narrow gap between the Conservatives and Labour, the chattering classes' newspapers and current affairs programmes on television are full of pundits agonising about…
In the next instalment of TANKED, LabourList's focus on the think tanks, pressure groups and campaign organisations that make up the movement of the centre-left, we profile Compass. NAME: Compass - Direction for the Democratic Left…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Political Scrapbook has unearthed a 2000 Times op-ed in which Michael Gove, then a columnist at the newspaper, slams the newly ennobled Lord Ashcroft as a "comdeian" who puts the "enitre Tory electoral…
