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By Jyoti Bhojani, Young Labour BAME Officer Last weekend saw the Bi-annual BAME Labour Summer Conference - the first real opportunity for ethnic minority members and supporters to come together since the new executive took their posts. So…
Labour of Love By Simon Buckley I was staring into space, failing to prepare for the impending selection meeting. "Do you think that I'll still be able to wear my purple boots if I'm a councillor?" I asked, noticing my feet. My wife looked…
By Olivia Bailey, National Chair of Labour Students News broke over the weekend that David Miliband will travel to twenty universities around the country to listen to students' views. The headlines inevitably focussed on David's return to…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh By the time you read this, if I've got my arse in gear and managed to pack up all my council papers and vegan cookbooks, I will have moved house: from just-very-slightly-outside my ward, into my ward…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh On Saturday afternoon I came out of a meeting feeling angry. This happens to me reasonably often - more so, you won't be surprised to hear, since I was elected as a councillor. Sometimes I'm angry…
Labour of Love By Simon Buckley A bearded man named Peter entered the room, shook my hand and possibly changed my life for ever with the simple phrase "You're in." A few minutes earlier I'd been sitting in a kitchen, decorated in the…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh On Tuesday, like a lot of people, I took a moment to celebrate the 63rd birthday of our National Health Service. Actually, it took me all day. I marked the occasion by posting out an update on the…
Labour of Love By Simon Buckley The Bisto advert used to feature two cartoon kids, merrily wandering along. Then a waft of gravy would drift through the air and up their nostrils, and they'd be enticed away from their intended journey on a…
By Chris Hughes / @chrisdhughes On Thursday I watched, in complete horror, BBC Question Time. On paper, this should have been a massive walkover for the left, including the Labour representative, but no. Indeed it was a win for the left…
By Sue Marsh / @suey2y When Labour released the winner of a public poster campaign during the 2010 election I had a massive facepalm moment. Of all the messages they could have chosen, making David Cameron look like the anti-hero of a…
By Byron Taylor At Unions Together we know the pride that trade unions take in their powers of negotiation. Yet even they are unable to reach an agreement with a government that calls for negotiations in one breath, then rejects any…
By Stewart Owadally, Movement for Change Over the last few months, the party has been debating how to move forward following our election defeat last May. Refounding Labour has been an important part of that debate. If we are to be an…
