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By Bob Piper I recently received an open note addressed to Londoners from Davey Hopper. Davey is the North-East Area Secretary of the NUM, and has been trying to get in touch with those in London who marched, argued for, and took part in…
By James Purnell Today's unemployment figures are bad. We will never forget that behind the statistics that will be banded around, the media today are real people. We will not repeat the mistakes of the 80s and early 90s and will never say…
By Linda Riordan The recent election and ingauration of Barack Obama has been, politically, a wonderfully bright moment in these dark days of the global economic downturn. 'Obama mania' really did grip everyone on both sides of the…
By Dan McCurry In the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire began a policy of land registry in the region that we today call Israel/Palestine. Local entrepreneurs offered to take up the title deeds on their behalf of the peasants and deal…
By Peter Mandelson John Prescott is putting me to shame. I met him on my way to the PLP meeting last night and he was chiding me for my lack of posts. Quite right too. He is setting a pace with his blogging exploits that some of us are…
By Andy Burnham Because I know how life changing theatre can be, I was proud to launch A Night Less Ordinary with the support of Eddie Izzard and Kevin Spacey. This scheme means that if you're under 26 and want to try something different…
By Zia Namooya It's not an easy question to answer as different organizations have different strengths, weaknesses and established silos of discipline. My honest answer is that social media should be the responsibility of public relations…
By Douglas Alexander Until the credit crunch, there was something of a consensus in Britain that it was the politics of identity - not the arithmetic of economics - that would increasingly provide the crucible for public debate. Global…
By Mark Hanson If I had a pound for everyone who's spoken to me about the success enjoyed by the Obama campaign online I'd be a rich man! (How many Brits have you met claiming to have been 'involved' in the Obama campaign?) The message of…
By Glenis Willmott The European Elections on the 4th June will be a crucial national election for Labour as well as for Britain. For Labour people the values that we work on at local and national level are impossible to achieve without…
By Derek Draper Just to make sure everyone knows that the so-called independent "Centre for Open Politics" which is trying to stir up trouble for Jacqui Smith is none other than a front organisation for.... Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes…
by Derek Draper You may have read about Joe Townsend, the marine who lost both legs serving in Afghanistan. His parents are trying to build him a bungalow next to theirs in Wealden but the local council has turned down the planning…
