Arnie Graf offers a politics that is not just for the rich or weird
If it is true that the smears on Arnie Graf being fed to the worst enemies of Labour…
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Can electoral reform help Labour reach into the “electoral deserts” of the South?
“What does it mean to the Labour Party to be One Nation?” Ed Miliband asked in 2012. One…
PMQs verdict: Ed resists the urge to be the quiet man – and turns up the volume
After three weeks of Ed Miliband doing his best “quiet man” impression at PMQs, the Labour leader managed…
Last night the government severely curbed civil liberties, free speech and democracy
Yesterday was a dreadful day for democracy and free speech in the UK. Last night, after weeks of…
Why intervention in Syria is necessary: a response to the critics
I said in my LabourList column last week that we will look back and regret not intervening in…
For a balanced recovery, cities need more powers to drive growth
At last the UK economy appears to be recovering from the deepest peacetime recession in the last 100…
This is good growth – but it’s unbalanced growth too
So the economy grew by 1.9% in the last year. Normally that’d be nothing to write home about,…
What a difference two years make
The reaction to Ed Balls’ speech on deficit reduction at the Fabian New Year Conference on Saturday couldn’t…
Undervalued and in debt: public service workers deserve more than this
First things first; the latest figures showing unemployment continuing to fall are clearly welcome news. However, there remain many…
The Tories have a total tin-ear on tax and the super rich. Ed Balls must be delighted today
As Ed Balls peruses this morning’s papers, he must hardly believe his luck. An announcement made at a…
