The end of one journey for Hackney – and the start of another
The end of the Olympics marked the end of two amazing weeks for Hackney – the final step…
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Why did coastal towns stop voting Labour? And how do we win them back?
This week Rob Williams argued in his article on coastal towns that they were a key battleground for…
In defence of The Sun
Boy meets girl. Boy takes girl back to penthouse apartment for a game of ‘strip billiards’. Boy is…
What people think about when they think about public services…
‘Public’, ‘service’, ‘reform’. The very words are enough to make any long-time observer of Labour’s policy wrangles tremble.…
We need to avoid NHS knee-jerks
The NHS provides a range of invaluable services. Foremost among these has to be the testing of knee…
Lib Dems Shouldn’t Ditch Clegg (Yet)
Life isn’t easy for the Lib Dems at the moment. There are few indications it’s going to get…
Labour elects first woman leader
Well, not quite. The idea of a woman leading the Labour Party is so off the wall that…
Osborne loses (one of) his jobs – this is the man who will replace him
The Daily Mail reports today that George Osborne will no longer be running the Tory 2015 election campaign.…
We cannot rely on George Osborne to push Labour into power – we should be much further ahead
The Coalition government’s economic strategy appears to be deteriorating by the day but we cannot rely on George…
Unfinished Business: Boundary Changes, Breaches of Contract and the Coalition
It has been a curious political August. Nick Clegg’s statement on the Liberal Democrats’ intention to vote against…
