Taking another look at Blue Labour
At Labour’s annual conference this year, we will need to outline how the One Nation theme will apply…
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Leave Twigg alone
The current whispering campaign against Stephen Twigg is not motivated by concerns about his performance, it is driven…
Grant Shapps is having a shocker of a summer
Forget the summer silly season, the reality is weaknesses in the Tory’s organisation have been exposed while Labour…
The Great Tory Train Robbery
Under Boris Johnson, London commuter fares have become the most expensive in the world. Since he became Mayor,…
The government are attacking civil society and free speech (and this blog)
The government’s hastily drafted “Lobbying and Transparency” Bill was published just before recess. Due to entirely political considerations,…
People in our communities face an underlying sense of insecurity
I represent South Kirkby and South Elmsall ward on Wakefield District Council. I’m not sure many people will…
The historic rise in the education leaving age will be a massive missed opportunity for young people
The great Labour Education Secretary Tony Crosland wrote in 1956 that to create an education system which achieves…
Cameron should raise the issue of LGBT rights with Putin at the G20
With the passing of a federal law in Russia to ban the ‘promotion of nontraditional sexual orientations to…
Could the German economic model be Ed Miliband’s ‘big idea’?
David Cameron was recently filmed lecturing a group of manufacturing workers with the inimical advice that ‘frankly we…
Get real – the coalition only handed their dodgy donation back because they were caught red handed
Did they honestly think they would get away with it? I mean it’s not like they weren’t aware…
