Support for Spain’s banks will work (and why that’s good for the UK)
Spain, distracting attention from Greece, is to receive up to €100bn in banking sector rescue loans. The UK…
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The Youth of Today: What’s next for Labour Students?
Labour Students, set up in 1971 as a campaigning organisation for student supporters of the Labour Party and…
The “third round” of the French Presidential elections…
It could confirm Francois Hollande’s revolution: or stop it in its tracks. It could prove that there is…
Who coordinates internet politics for Labour?
Labour’s website lists 115 MPs and Lords* in the Shadow Cabinet and shadow teams that assist them. Yet…
A socially just welfare state would slash spending…says a lefty
The popular myth is that the welfare state props up workshy scroungers, who are – in the words…
Representing “Ill Manors”
As I’m writing this blog post on the train, a muffled woman’s voice is just about audible over…
An inequality so commonplace that we often don’t even see it
There was a period when all Labour Party meetings seemed to start with slightly cringey ice breakers. You’d…
Boris Johnson’s staggering incompetence – and paying tribute to Ken
Tom Copley’s London Eye It’s been a month since I had the great honour of being elected to…
Aussie Rules for an Economic comeback
When it comes to infighting, the Australian Labour Party can certainly show the UK Labour Party a thing…
London isn’t a foreign country
Like many Scots, each week I make the journey between Glasgow and London, and when I step off…
