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Sadie Smith's Roundup of the Parliamentary Week / @smithsky1979 This is a special recess edition of your favourite Parliamentary sketch which is appearing on LabourList slightly later than its normal scheduling to ensure that the thrills…
The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column Given that it's Bank Holiday Monday, I thought I might be, relatively, non-political for a change. This week saw the second estimate of first quarter GDP released, which gives some more detail on…
Shamik Das's Friday Fun / @shamikdas I don't know about you but I've been enthralled by the goings-on of the last two weeks; shocked, astounded, outraged and saddened in equal measure. It feels like we're all part of a game, participants in…
Sadie Smith's Roundup of the Parliamentary Week Since hardly anybody got the joke about Round the Horne last week, I'm obviously going to do another one this week. That's right folks, it's called "listening and leading" and so, without…
A Long Time In Politics: Sadie Smith's Roundup of the Parliamentary Week / @smithsky1979 The story so far (with apologies to Round the Horne): the previous week had taken its toll on blushing, winsome Gordon Brown. Caught in a pincer…
By Glenis Willmott I've just got back to Brussels after a hectic second to last Strasbourg session of this Parliament! It's such a trek going there each month, and for all the positive things we achieve there it is difficult to justify the…
By Dan McCurry So Peter Hargreaves is planning to flee Great Britain in order to avoid a 5% increase in taxes. He announced it in the Sunday Times as if he expected people to burst into tears. Far from it; I suggest we have a whip-round to…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting I have to confess that when the tireless and fearless Chair of Young Labour, Richard Angell, asked me to write a piece for the Young Labour takeover of LabourList I spent a good few days agonising about how…
By Andrew Gwynne One of the most enduring appeals of the Labour Party is that it continues to be the party of youth. I joined the Labour party aged 17 when we had a real mountain to climb. Many of the people I joined the party with had…
By Alastair Campbell Lots of memories stirred last night as I sat on a panel to help launch the Fabian Society's latest book, The Change We Need, on lessons Britain can learn from Barack Obama's victory. Memories because the venue was…
By Conor McGinn St. Patrick's Day is a very special one for Irish people, particularly the large diaspora across the world. Here in Britain, it is celebrated with great pride by the large emigrant community that live in London, Manchester…
By Glenis Willmott I'm just leaving the office in Strasbourg and wanted to drop a quick note to remind you of how far-fetched David Cameron's claims to have changed the Tory party are. Yesterday William Hague met with the chairman of the…
