In London – there is an alternative
Today at City Hall we will present Labour’s alternative budget for London to the Mayor. Boris’s record as…
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One Nation Labour must avoid Britain’s ‘lost decade’
The Government was proclaiming recently that the economy was ‘healing’ given the recent improvement in unemployment figures and…
Some Tories think Barnet’s “Easycouncil” is worth emulating – here’s why they’re wrong
Anyone watching last week’s Brighton and Hove City Council meeting would have been horrified to hear Conservative councillors…
When does a politician’s personal life become our business?
Chris Huhne has broken the law and – quite rightly – will likely be going to jail. His…
The movement IS the policy – why changing the way the party works is bigger than Clause IV
Last night Jon Cruddas gave a speech at the Resolution Foundation on Labour’s Policy Review. Much of the…
Jon Cruddas has given us an alternative meaning for aspiration
Do you remember when Jon Cruddas was appointed to run the Policy Review? I bet that from pretty…
News International and Me
I’ll never forget the call from the Metropolitan Police on the Monday of Labour Party conference, September 2011,…
PMQs Verdict: Is this the best Parliament in the world? Or the worst? Actually it’s both
We’ve seen at least two sides of our Parliament in the past 24 hours – perhaps more. Last…
The Francis Report is a savage indictment of the cuts necessary to achieve privatisation
By Rachel Maskell The Francis Report into the tsunami of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is a…
The Government have u-turned on improving the lives of families with disabled children
David Cameron went into the last general election claiming that his Government would be the ‘most family friendly…
