Lessons for Labour from six months in the Cabinet Office
Last year I spent six months on secondment at the Cabinet Office. My role was as the policy lead…
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The Week in Bits: Europe, More Europe and why IDS wants to be like Shia LeBeouf
Oh friends, not these tones! When Tory MPs were summoned for a meeting of the parliamentary party on…
Renationalising the railways is a “One Nation” idea
On Friday, the Tory-led Government published the three preferred bidders for the East Coast line and dashed hopes…
Can Labour learn to love fracking?
My heart sank when I heard that Labour-run Brent has decided to ban all fracking in the borough.…
The truth about Britain’s banks
You might have thought Britain’s banks had been pushed, prodded and shaken enough over recent years. That is…
After Amritsar, it’s time to call time on the “30 Year Rule”
Margaret Thatcher, Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan held Britain’s three great offices of State thirty years ago. The…
After Duggan
There are lessons for the Labour Party to learn in the wake of the shooting of Mark Duggan.…
Obesity – can we change hearts, minds and waistbands?
Lord Tebbit, possibly the most charming member of the House of Lords, this week, said that obese people…
Miliband wants a Britain where the banks work for you – not the other way round
George Osborne may have stolen his thunder somewhat with a tactically timed non-pledge to possibly, maybe increase the…
Labour can’t afford to get outflanked by Osborne on the Minimum Wage
It seems that George Osborne has had a rather sudden damascene conversion to a higher Minimum Wage. His…
