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By Dan McCurry When I was a kid growing up in the east-end on London, there was only one Bangladeshi boy in my class in the first year at school, but by the time I was in the sixth form there was only one white boy in the whole first year…
By Andy Reed The Prime Minister has insisted there should be "no reward for failure" at banks which have had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Gordon Brown was speaking after reports Royal Bank of Scotland is considering awarding large…
By Lesley Griffiths If the Labour-led Welsh Assembly Government ever went in search of suitable motto, they could a lot worse than turn to Mohandas K. Gandhi's truism, "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do…
by Derek Draper In today's Sun Adrian Chiles makes it clear that Carol Thatcher was not "joking" when she used (repeatedly) the word Golliwog: Carol was in full flow, talking about who'd win the Australian Open. "You also have to consider…
by Derek Draper You may have noticed that Ian Dale and myself have been having a row all week about his relaxed reaction to Carol Thatcher's use of the word Golliwog. He has now threatened to publish details of our private e-mail…
By Tom Miller Nationalisation of the commanding heights, nuclear disarmament... though I suspect it might not meet his total approval, Michael Foot must be somewhat pleased at some of the post-Blair developments in Labour's thinking…
By Conor Ryan The Liberal Democrats apparently spent a decade working out their education reforms, published today. But the result is a series of proposals that could lessen chances for poorer pupils, rather than increase them. They have…
By Derek Simpson Unite members at the Lindsey Oil Refinery have voted to return to work. The deal opens 102 new jobs to British workers in addition to the posts awarded to an Italian company. According to management, no foreign workers will…
By Stephen Newton Oh golly! A blog war with the media's favourite, Iain Dale, right at the centre of things as always. No harm will be done, as bloggers are pretty much unsackable. Our blogs are - like the London Evening Standard - vanity…
By Mark Day This post was first featured at Progress Online. Quite a spat seems to be brewing between stalwarts of the political blogosphere Derek Draper and Iain Dale about the latter's defense of Carol Thatcher over her sacking from the…
By Peter Kenyon Save the Labour Party, of which I was recently re-elected chair, has just issued a call for a debate at the Labour Party National Policy Forum about the Party's relationship with the private sector. Its constitution…
By Dan McCurry The policy to increase the stock of social housing is precious to all Labour activists since we've seen the way in which housing costs have deprived communities not just of sons and daughters but of postmen, nurses and…
