As Ed hones his big speech: What business wants from Labour
Tomorrow Ed Miliband sets out his pitch to the country about economic recovery. But what ideas does business…
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Labour must tackle unpaid internships and inequality of opportunity
Sixteen years ago as a graduate doing admin work in an office in Edinburgh I applied for and…
OMOV is straightforward, let’s not overcomplicate it
It is refreshing, perhaps, to hear Labour Students call for OMOV – after the debacle earlier this year…
10 tangible changes Ed Miliband could make today to kickstart his leadership
The attempted coup (if it was ever as organised or serious as that) is over. The newspaper stories…
It’s time Labour joined the world in fighting climate change
Late last night, when the announcement came, it was justifiably called “historic”. The United States and China reached…
We are going back to the bad old days of a Government failing to invest in the NHS
It’s been two months and it was sadly predictable. If you close two out of nine A&E departments…
What might Labour’s new public services agenda look like?
Since losing power Labour has thrown off the New Labour fixation with markets and top-down centralisation and embraced…
Sturgeon is about to become our fifth First Minister but no one knows what her Government’s policies will be
In a matter of days, Nicola Sturgeon will become Scotland’s fifth First Minister. She will take on responsibility…
An end to cold homes
Britain is facing an energy bill crisis, with millions of people struggling to heat their homes. Under the Tories,…
What Labour need to do to deliver on housing
For a government that is supposedly all about “Localism”, it’s ironic that the Coalition’s chief planning reforms have…
