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The Oli de Botton Education column Putting parents first in education has been a New Labour mantra. This year's Queens Speech was no different. Parents may soon be able to take schools to court if the education provided is not up to…
The Paul Richards column Is there a new concerted attempt to suggest the Labour Party is riddled with communists and subversives, who were filling their boots with Moscow gold during the 1980s? The Spectator has been running a series of…
The Paul Richards column I have nothing personally against the individual members of the Royal Family. The Queen seems to do what is expected of her, and she was great in that film. What was it called? Ah yes, The Queen. I even have a…
By Martin Bright / @martinbright Here, LabourList exclusively publishes Martin Bright's column from this week's Spectator, which is in the shops tomorrow (Thursday). Where does Gordon Brown find solace in these darkest of times? In Downing…
The Amanjit Jhund NHS Column One of the criticisms that is consistently levelled at the NHS is that the management are often viewed as being a hindrance and a liability. There is often a degree of disconnect between front line staff and the…
By Ruth Smeeth / @RuthSmeeth Picture the scene, it was a cold wet November evening and over a hundred Labour Party members came to the Burton Caribbean Centre to decide who should be the new Labour Parliamentary candidate to replace Janet…
The Oli De Botton Education Column I want to stand up for big government. I want to do this because without top down central proscription and national programmes, we would not have made the progress we have done on literacy and numeracy…
The Paul Richards Column Last week I wrote about the pop music that influenced me, and many others, in the Labour Party in the 1980s. Since then, I've been reflecting on the television dramas which guided a generation towards left-wing…
The Oli De Botton Schools Column The row last week about pushy parents bending the rules to get their kids into good schools was instructive for progressives. It neatly highlighted two key problems that stand in the way of greater…
The Paul Richards column Last Thursday in the Times Phil Collins offered the view "with the exception of Billy Bragg, and even he will be remembered for the love songs, nobody seems to be able to do political songs anymore". If it had been…
The return of the Duncan Weldon Economics Matters column It seems a long time since I last wrote anything for LabourList in early August. A lot has happened since then - party conference season, the battle over the NHS, the fight over the…
The Sam Tarry / @SamTarry Campaigns Column This week has been seriously busy; even for me its taking a toll. I write this at 11.30pm on a train back from Manchester where I was running my third Organising Academy of the week for Hope not…
