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,…
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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…
Miliband rolls the pitch
David Cameron didn’t deliver a bad speech at his party conference; it was fine. Tories will have loved…
Dear Boris, where exactly would you like single mums to live?
Conservative plans to scrap housing benefit support for under-25s may be a classic Conference clap-line against the feckless…
Cameron’s “deeply disingenuous” claims on the NHS
You should never allege in writing that a politician has lied. That will get you into trouble. So…
There’s a class war being waged in Britain – but not by Labour
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”…
Surely that wasn’t serious?
I’ve just had the pleasure of sitting through David Cameron’s speech. I took a break from my work…
