The Confidence Trick
Labour have a firm poll lead, intellectual coherence and vision, unity and momentum. None of which can be…
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Londoners should be wary of narrow market driven thinking
Boris Johnson’s proposal to close virtually every ticket office on the London Underground got relatively little publicity. Partly …
No Boris – greed is not good
Last night Mayor of London Boris Johnson addressed the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies and delivered the annual…
5 things Labour’s all staff meeting should talk about today
Today Labour Party staff will be taking part in a special all-staff meeting in Central London, including a…
Top 10 moments in Scottish Labour movement history
1) Keir Hardie enters parliament 2) Mary Barbour’s army wins rent controls 3) Jennie Lee creates the Open…
Why Labour needs a Kent strategy
First, an explanation of why a councillor from Hackney is writing about Kent. Although I moved away when…
PMQs Verdict: Are we all Marxists now?
Well this wasn’t a great PMQs by any stretch of the imagination. The sub-par session was summed up…
Desmond Tutu is wrong – the British people are not racist for being worried about immigration
As we draw nearer to the January 1, 2014, the arms race of claim and counter claim about…
In defence of protest
The brutal display of employer power during the Grangemouth Oil Refinery dispute has been pretty shocking. A workforce…
Is that it?
The SNP White paper on Independence – my first reaction – seriously, is that it? After months of…
