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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…
By Mary Honeyball Europe's demographic crisis was highlighted in a report on carers in the informal economy passed by the European Parliament yesterday. Europe's population is falling, a fact which could prove detrimental to our economy and…
By Derek Draper This morning, after his shameful appearance on the Today programme, and equally shameful blogpost, LabourList removed Iain Dale's Diary from our blogroll. We said: "10.00 am Ashcroft sock puppet Iain Dale has defended Carol…
By Mark Hanson I've grown a bit frustrated in recent weeks with various attacks on the work being done by all of us at many different levels to improve Labour's web presence. Some of the criticism on Tory blogs or by sniping press…
By Ann Black The meeting opened with a lively discussion of the National Policy Forum. The next Forum is on 28 February, followed by a review of the current cycle including the new right to submit amendments. Conference 2009 will also…
By Alex Ross When I lived in Leeds, I chucked all my recyclables into a bin and, issues with the local bin men throwing them into the general waste lorry aside, I knew it would go away to be sorted and recycled. Upon moving to Bradford, I…
By Derek Draper Yesterday we noted with interest the front page of the Guardian, which shone the light on the scale of corporate tax avoidance in the UK, and launched the Guardian's new series on tax avoidance. Vince Cable followed up this…
By Ken Livingstone Labour's progress in the polls during the autumn of last year was directly linked to the sense that of the two main parties, Labour was proposing - and carrying out - policies to address the economic crisis, whereas the…
By Keith Vaz Traditional trade union values support the right to work of all workers equally. We should take great care when we try and create a right to work that is dependent on whether or not you have a British passport. Seeking to…
By Will Straw The Labour Party announced last week that it was adopting one of the most successful techniques used by the Obama campaign in the American election. Throughout both the primary and general election, Obama supporters anywhere…
