Public ownership of the railways – an alternative vision
There are two main sources of much needed investment into the railway – people who sit on trains…
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Mum’s the word
Whenever I speak out, as I frequently do, championing working parents and the contribution they make to businesses,…
Most voters blame the banks, not Labour, for the crash
A year from the general election Progressive Polling has revisited who voters believe caused the financial crash in…
Why Labour must be a “frank friend” to big business
A new poll today shows that most Britons believe our next government should toughen up its stance towards big…
A tale of two prisons
Prison A has been open since 1875, it holds just over 1200 men, in 2013 there were 81…
PMQs verdict: The danger of talking about your own policies
Ed Miliband may be buzzing at the moment, boasting yesterday of his surplus of “intellectual self-confidence” over Cameron.…
More notes from the trenches on the No campaign
Since my earlier post Trench Warfare 2014appeared, two main lines of argument have emerged. The first of these…
What does the next year look like for Labour?
With just one year to go until election day, we’ve asked a number of LabourList contributors, thinkers, journalists…
One year to go – 5 dates that will define Labour’s massive year
We are now into an election year, at long last. After four years of coalition government, we’re into…
Labour can no longer afford to match Tory rhetoric on immigration
In the heat of the 2010 election, worried that their candidate was going to lose, election agent Joseph…
