Cameron can cut off the rotting limb – but the gangrene has already spread
I knew Andrew Mitchell was toast a few weeks ago. It was a week or so after “pleb-gate” and…
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A London Primary would be wrong for the Labour Party
By Rt Hon John Spellar MP and Luke Akehurst After a very united and positive Labour Party Annual…
Labour’s newfound maturity and seriousness
Conference, for many, will have seemed a decidedly small-scale affair on finding a reduced secure zone and a…
‘Follow the money’: opening up access to information
It was recently revealed that Atos, the controversial sponsor of the Paralympics receive £3bn in public money through…
Osborne’s share ‘bribe’ is a con
So this Government wants people to feel invested in the companies that they work for. To do this…
Did any party conference really tackle these three major crises?
Conference season is over. Most of the country won’t have even realised that it was happening of course,…
Labour’s Police and Crime Commissioners should take a broader view of “justice”
As election day for the Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) draws ever closer, it seems a good juncture…
It’s time for Labour to reach beyond “the empty stadium”
Party general Secretary Iain McNicol, in his speech to the Labour Party conference, cited Philip Gould’s metaphor that…
The faith of One Nation Labour
“He who smiles last longer”, so read the Wayside Pulpit message outside a rather bedraggled Methodist church I…
The Tories are running a ‘below the radar’ campaign in Bristol
The Bristol Mayor election is conventionally presented as being between Marvin Rees on the one hand and a…
