Yes we Ken
On Wednesday night I joined 80 volunteers at Labour party HQ – all there to take part in…
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Gadaffi’s gone – now the left should back UK big oil
So Gadaffi has been killed. This has been regarded as the last major hurdle to the road to…
The middle class housing crisis
As regular readers of my blog will know, our landlord gave us notice to leave a few weeks…
Free schools aren’t an extension of New Labour’s academies
Although it’s politically convenient for the Tories to link free schools with New Labour’s academies and Thatcher’s grant-maintained…
Should protests be time limited?
I came over Blackfriars Bridge this morning a little after seven o’clock. The baroque dome of St Paul’s…
Riots – we need to understand if we’re going to stop them
I spent most of yesterday with the Government’s independent Riots Communities and Victims panel. Set up by cross…
PMQs verdict: A man under siege
Last week the first Tory cabinet minister of the coalition government fell, mired in a controversy than has…
Polling, polling, polling. Rawhide?
Freethinking with Rob Marchant (With profuse apologies to the late Frankie Laine, or the Blues Brothers, depending on…
Why the left rarely wins
So, the 99% movement. I don’t write about movement politics much, because it’s not my area of speciality.…
Without clarity, the EU referendum debate is dangerous
It’s far from clear how Labour should deal with the growing argument about a referendum on Britain’s relationship…
