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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a YouGov poll for yesterday's Telegraph, Labour continued its trend of slightly improved numbers, again gaining an overall net increase on the Tories of four points. The poll follows other recent…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Steve Richards has a powerfully argued case for the domestic and political rationale behind the Iraq war. The crux of his piece today is that Tony Blair wanted to show he could support a Republican Preisdent…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A poll for tomorrow's Observer has some stunning results, with the Tories' support collapsing from 43% last month to 37%, and Labour's increasing by 5 points to 31%. The Ipsos-Mori poll has the gap between the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I was in a meeting when I heard that Baroness Cathy Aston and Herman Van Rompuy would be High Representative and President of the European Council. My reaction, like many people's, was of confusion turning…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I'm going back into my old school in the morning to work with the alumni networks project for state schoolers I'm involved with, FutureFirst. In preparing for this, and for speaking on the panel of the launch…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Congratulations to Willie Bain, Labour's new MP for Glasgow North East. As with defeat, there are important lessons to be learned from victories - and this was an expected, though reassuring, success. Labour…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In the same week that one of his newspapers in the UK published a private conversation between the Prime Minister and Jacqui Janes, the mother of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan, as a means of attacking the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A couple of important stories have done the rounds in the past 24 hours about Labour's continued cash crisis, and the impact it could have on the party's general election campaign. The Sunday Times reported…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft There are two possible criticisms which pro-European political opponents might make of David Cameron's new European Union policy - one that it is meaningless; the other that it is dangerous. Which will the…
Richard Robinson's Speech Bubble If truth be told you probably won't remember what you were doing a year ago today. Barack Obama will - he was elected the 44th president of the United States. Momentarily the world stood still, from New York…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It's been a bad weekend for science and a bad weekend for Alan Johnson. On Friday, he removed Professor David Nutt - his expert advisor on the misuse of drugs - for speaking out against the government's drugs…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 There's been a lot of attack and defence this week about the Conservatives' new group in the European Parliament. First, Iain Dale published what he termed the "real views" of Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael…
