Sorry Arnie, Labour’s a political party, not a community group
I read Arnie Graf’s piece yesterday with much interest. After all, his “root and branch” review of the…
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Ed Miliband’s critics don’t understand strategy
Strategy is difficult. It should be, it’s a tool to solve difficult problems. Unfortunately, it’s something that people…
Sorting the welfare reality from the welfare myths
The first time the bus leaves for a school trip that you can’t afford to go on is…
If we are serious about government, we need to learn to play the expectations game better than this
Last weekend an Independent exclusive reported that Labour had made an in-principle decision not to stick to Tory…
Is Labour’s answer to the “Big Society” the shared society?
The incessant debate of the last week around Margaret Thatcher and her- largely baleful- legacy has perhaps obscured…
Through the Looking Glass? Labour and the One Nation Tory Tradition on Welfare
In 1950, a group of ambitious young Tory MPs got together to produce a pamphlet entitled One Nation:…
What I have learned
In December 2010 I was introduced to Ed Miliband by Lord Maurice Glasman. Up to that point I…
Was this the most important news of the week?
What was the most important news of the week? Perhaps it was the announcement that the UK had…
Galloway won’t be rejoining the Labour Party – but Miliband was still wrong to meet him
There’s been a certain amount of (entirely justifiable) anger and confusion from many Labour supporters today at reports…
We’re not “all Thatcherites now”
When David Cameron said we are all ‘Thatcherites’ now on the morning of Baroness Thatchers funeral he not…
