Labour will never credibly out-do the Tories on a “tough” approach on welfare
Long-term unemployment has exploded in the last 2 years: a gut-wrenching 146% increase. That’s not down to an…
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There’s nothing Labour about unemployment – but compulsory work is only worthwhile if it’s good work
The compulsory job scheme plans announced by Ed Balls this morning have received a thoroughly unsurprising response. The…
Could you be one of our 70 candidates? Well, only if you had known…
If you are a Labour Party member you have probably received the party e-mails asking you “Could you…
The colossal snobbery of those who sneer at Tesco
Freak rainfall caused by global warming. Sixty thousand dead in the Syrian civil war. Open warfare over the…
What the Dickens are the Tories up to on welfare reform?
Christmas is over, unemployment is high and foodbanks look like they will be busy in 2013. The jousting…
2013: in Labour’s do-or-die year, it’s the strategy of hope versus the strategy of hopeful
The audacity of hope: it worked for Obama in 2008, and it is an important quality for an…
Small Business Saturday – Celebrating the contribution of the UK’s small businesses
Step out onto Streatham High Road, Europe’s longest continuous High Street, and our small local independent businesses will…
Miliband’s One Nation or Cameron’s national liberalism – which will win out in 2013?
The story of UK politics in 2012 is in essence a simple one. David Cameron managed to stoke…
Fare Enough?
Today, fares on London Transport have increased above the level of inflation for the fifth time in a…
5 key aims for Labour in 2013
By Mark Ferguson and Marcus Roberts 2012 was the year that Ed Miliband secured his leadership of the…
