On Len McCluskey, Ed Miliband and the “Blairites”
Len McCluskey’s interview with the New Statesman has received plenty of interest in the last 24 hours. Although…
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Grant Shapps is becoming the Comical Ali of the Conservative Party
The sniping and spinning has already started. David Cameron is being warned he needs to lose fewer than…
Why we need a People’s Politics Inquiry
In a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday evening I launched an Inquiry in to the crisis…
Dear George Galloway. If you want Labour to win, shut up and go away…
Oh look – George Galloway has popped up in the papers again. The Evening Standard has interviewed him…
PMQs Verdict: The importance of defending your record
Today there was a PMQs. Remember them? It’s when Ed Miliband asks David Cameron questions and the Prime…
Austerity, challenged
Making economic policy when the convention wisdom is wrong and is against you is not easy, as Labour…
A national evil returns
By Steve Leniec “It is a national evil that any class of Her Majesty’s subjects should receive less than…
Choking off judicial review weakens the rights of all our citizens to hold governments to account
You know a Government is in trouble when it blames everyone and everything for their own woes. Under…
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…
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…
