The Cost of Ageing: Why Labour should integrate health and social care
We face a challenging future with an increasing population and one that is ageing rapidly. Statistics show that…
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Energy renationalisation isn’t going to happen – but the government can still control the energy market
Last October, Brian Reade wrote an article in the Daily Mirror with the headline ‘The time has come…
We need to stop pigeon-holing women into typical “women’s issue” roles
The result of the 1997 election was groundbreaking for Labour, not only because it broke the Wilderness years…
Miliband’s focus on ‘cost-of-living’ is more radical and broader than most realise
At an event on changing attitudes to poverty recently, a colleague remarked that the Labour Party had almost…
Technology is favouring Labour, but only if it can transform itself
Last Saturday Labour wrote the final chapter of a book left without a conclusion for over 20 years. …
Miliband’s reforms go much further than anticipated: they also owe a surprising debt to the legacy of the New Left
When Ed Miliband launched his review of Labour’s structure in a speech at St Brides last July, many…
Only Labour can deliver Agenda 2030 for balanced, long term growth
In a speech in January, George Osborne outlined the Tories’ vision of a “permanently smaller” state as an…
Policy makers must learn to understand the working class
The main story on the front pages of yesterday’s Daily Telegraph was about Russian armoured troops continuing to…
Now it’s all about the implementation
Phew! Labour just managed to radically reform itself and increase its internal democracy and transparency, without a massive…
Ukraine: time for a constructive and realistic initiative by Labour
The mounting crisis in Ukraine and the ignorance that underlies much of western governments’ response to it (including…
