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By Anne-Marie O'Reilly International Women's Day leaves no space for self-congratulation on the part of Labour. It does however provide a chance with one week to go before the third reading of the Welfare Reform Bill to expose the bill's…
By Anna-Helga Horrox I've never felt comfortable with gender stereotypes, even before I could explain why. As a child, my teddy was definitely a girl and my favourite colour was blue. As I got older I began to understand that various…
By Nisreen Malik No woman goes into the City expecting an easy time of it. The hours are obscene, the political manoeuvrings ubiquitous and you are always in a minority. The higher up the corporate ladder a woman goes, the more other women…
By Laurie Penny Labour should be ashamed of Tom Harris MP for his public bullying of teenage mothers - some of the neediest and most disempowered of his constituents. Harris' misogynist moral tubthumping is just one more reason to support…
By Stella Creasy How does a concern for inequality transfer to the internet? Is the achievement of equality the existence of a female Guido Fawkes? I've been pondering this because of the interest my use of the internet as a PPC has…
By Rowenna Davis LabourList Guest Editor According to the UN, the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day whilst the average guy speaks just 7,000. Yet when it comes to political conversations online, women are still massively…
By Eduard Bernstein In recent weeks the Taxpayers' Alliance has suddenly found itself under fire, and it is plain they don't like it. But I think it wrong to see them as some sort of shady conspiracy, or even as a trojan horse for PFI…
By Alastair Campbell Imagine that Mayor Ken Livinsgtone had been in contact with, and made odd public comments about, a Labour MP at the centre of a police investigation? Imagine that this had led to an inquiry which,whilst saying Mr…
By Len Duvall Boris Johnson's involvement in the Damian Green affair was this week described as "extraordinary and unwise". Extraordinary because a Chairman of a police authority "decided to conduct his own enquiries" into the arrest…
By Peter Mandelson There have been several good posts about the Royal Mail on LabourList, which is great, because the more we debate this issue the better. I want to explain what we are trying to do and why, and in doing so answer some of…
By Naz Sarkar With the Tories ahead in the polls, the Labour movement is starting to realise that there is no such thing as a safe Labour seat. In 1997 huge Tory majorities were decimated and a whole generation of Labour candidates swept to…
By Mike Ion All prescriptions are free in Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland will abolish prescription charges soon. And from April 1st this year Cancer patients, people under 19 and over 60 and those suffering from a list of illnesses…
