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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…
UPDATES 12.25 pm Gordon has just nailed it, saying: "It's good to have someone in the shadow cabinet who is supportive of our policies on Europe, supportive of our policies on VAT and probably quietly supportive of a number of our other…
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…
The Evening Standard are confirming this afternoon that "Hague is new Tory No 2, putting Osborne in shade". Ben Brogan of the Daily Mail explains what's going on: "The Cameron love thing with Mr Hague undermines Mr Osborne in two ways…
By Jessica Asato Cameron's performance on Andrew Marr's programme on Sunday could easily lead a Labour supporter to think the game's up for the Conservatives. Let's be honest, in 2008 the Tories looked like they were steadily progressing…
