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By Douglas Alexander This week sees the inauguration of what they are calling the first 'YouTube presidency'. Obama's campaign was an inspiration to Labour supporters in the UK and to progressives around the world. Yet Obama's victory was…
By Rachel Reeves In my Fabian Review article "Why £20bn is not enough" and at Saturday's Fabian conference session "Fairness in a Recession" I argued that although government action to date was welcome, more would be needed to pull us out…
By Rachel Reeves In my Fabian Review article "Why £20bn is not enough" and at Saturday's Fabian conference session "Fairness in a Recession" I argued that although government action to date was welcome, more would be needed to pull us out…
By Benjamin Wegg-Prosser This weekend's polls show that politics is now returning to normal. Despite defying political gravity throughout the Autumn Gordon Brown has now been brought back to earth with a widening poll gap and a sense that…
By Sunder Katwala The world has changed, with the financial and economic crisis, as the government and everybody else keeps telling us all. So the Labour manifesto will have to respond. But that will also mean we need to rethink how we make…
UPDATE FROM THE FABIAN CONFERENCE By Tom Miller Johann Hari makes the point that Sharia courts advocate deeply unequal treatment for women. He believes it's a myth that women voluntarily submit to the authority of these courts and that…
At the next election the main event will, as always, be the clash between progress, represented by Labour, and the party of privilege - the Tories. But for some, such as Labour in Haringey the local contest will be with the Lib Dems. Thanks…
By David Lammy So the Labour Party is getting to grips with the internet and online campaigning - not before time. I don't think it is controversial to say that the British Right has taken to the blogosphere rather more successfully that…
Just as Labour gets its new media act in order, cracks start to appear in the Tories cyber-strategy. The team that brought you Cameron's Washing Up: The Movie is apparently under pressure and out of favour with the 'old money' at Tory HQ…
By Leighton Andrews The next eighteen months could determine the trajectory of politics for the next generation. Words that have been out of favour for a long time - public, collective, mutual, the state - are suddenly fashionable again…
By Tom Harris The debate over a third runway won't end with the government's expected announcement today. Whatever Geoff Hoon tells the Commons and the country about whether or not the third runway will go ahead, expect the arguments from…
By Sunder Katwala There are two competing histories of the Middle East conflict, two competing narratives of right and wrong, and of political responsibility for the failure of previous peace efforts. Yet there is little secret about how…
