The remarkable cheek of Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg’s statement that the Lib Dems could form a coalition with Labour after the next General Election…
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Batman is left wing
A year ago, I wrote a piece tracking the parallels between Ken Livingstone and Batman. Rather than an…
A new, local early years infrastructure
All politicians seem to revere social mobility as a policy objective, but, in my experience, very few fully…
Sure Start centres need to be renewed – not cut
The Thomas Coram Foundation in Bloomsbury was once deeply unpopular with the inner city London residents it was…
The birds, the bees and the Tories
When I recently suggested on Twitter that in order to win the next election, Labour must appeal to…
Save our libraries
With schools, hospitals and social care all under pressure, why should we care about libraries? The case for…
Another return for Silvio? He couldn’t. Could he?
He is the longest-serving Italian Prime Minister of the post-war era. He has been Prime Minister on three…
A real Plan B – before it’s too late
So today, the Telegraph (of all papers) carries an article on IMF warnings to relax our austerity programme. They point out…
Beware unscrupulous lettings agents
Tom Copley’s London Eye Around eighteen months ago I was going through the process of renewing my tenancy…
Labour and Humanitarian Military Intervention – First, Do No Harm
With Syria at war, Iran threatening to explode (literally) and stalemate in Afghanistan it is overdue for the…
