The private sector always has a place in public services
My taxi driver the other morning, at around 6am on the way to the station, was telling me…
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Remploy: Again, disabled people are told they are “not viable”
Yesterday, after months and months of uncertainty, the Government announced that they would close 36 of its 54…
The Tory Masterplan: Labour’s Response
Tim Montgomerie had a fascinating post on ConservativeHome this week outlining the Tory plan to get themselves over…
Rupert Murdoch owns too many newspapers
Rupert Murdoch owns too many newspapers. This was the uncompromising message from the Shadow Culture Secretary Harriet Harman…
Forging the Labour alternative in our Town Halls
Last week saw the last of Labour’s Town Halls set their Council Tax and budgets for next year.…
We need a culture of constant policy creation
Mark Ferguson complains that Labour activists are being sent onto the doorstep “naked”. Thankfully, for their health, Mark is referring…
PMQS verdict: Slowly but surely, Ed Miliband is getting better at PMQs
A sombre PMQs this week, and as quiet as I’ve heard the chamber for some time. Unsurprising considering…
The gold I want to go for
My call for civil disobedience around the time of the Olympic Games caused a media storm last week. …
Michael Gove – Teflon Man
In 1991, a This Week special asked whether Kenneth Baker was ‘the Tories’ Teflon man’. 20 years later…
A referendum on Boris Johnson’s high fares policy
Ed Miliband today accused Boris Johnson of having ‘plundered’ the pockets of Londoners through his fare rises and…
