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Ed’s inbox – March 22nd

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Miliband can own the future in a way that Cameron can't - Labour Uncut By Jonathan Todd The longer Gordon Brown was prime…

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Ed’s inbox – March 18th

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... A moment of hope and a word of praise - Hopi Sen By Hopi Sen After what feels like an age of indecision, yet is in fact less…

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Ed’s inbox – March 17th

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... The poor lose out to the privileged in the coalition's education policy - Comment is Free By James Mills George Orwell…

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Ed’s inbox – March 10th

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... If Libyan rebels want it, why aren't we calling for a no-fly-zone too? - Liberal Conspiracy By Rupert Read Why are…

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In search of the perfect speech

By Paul Richards

The Paul Richards column For a form of communication that is thousands of years old, it is amazing that speech-making is still one of the most important ways political leaders communicate with their public. It was the Greeks and Romans who…

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Ed’s inbox – March 8th

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Boris Johnson spends £20k moving redundant official - Tory Troll By Adam Bienkov Boris Johnson spent almost £20,000 on new…

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Murphy talks the talk; Jarvis has walked the walk

By Paul Richards

The Paul Richards column At lunchtime today the shadow secretary of state for defence Jim Murphy will take the short walk from Parliament to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on Whitehall to deliver a speech restating Labour's…

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These are the real enemies, comrades

By Paul Richards

The Paul Richards column To take Monty Python's Life of Brian as merely a satire on the life of Christ is to miss the essential point of the film: that it is a satire on the life of Trotskyism. I don't suppose I got most of the political…

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Ed’s inbox – February 21st

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Boycotting the Census is a counter-productive move - Liberal Conspiracy By Don Paskini During March, people across the UK…

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Ed’s inbox – February 11th

By Mark Ferguson

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he'd read these ones... Can we win middle-class people to socialism? - Left Futures By Owen Jones How about I start by answering my own question…

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A fissure at the heart of the Liberal Democrats

By Paul Richards

The Paul Richards column The reaction up and down the Burma Road - the warren of cramped Lobby journalists' offices in the House of Commons - to the sacking of Lord Oakeshott yesterday was a resounding 'who he?' It's a fair question. His…

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