Jon Cruddas is wrong: the evidence actually proves Labour need a clearer anti-austerity agenda
Jon Cruddas has today argued, as part of his independent inquiry into Labour’s election loss, that ‘the Tories didn’t…
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The Calais crisis highlights the poverty of Tory immigration policies
The continuing crisis in Calais is a mess. It has not only hit trade and tourism between the…
Decommissioning machine politics is hard. Labour must adapt or be evolved out of existence
I read Arnie Graf’s piece for LabourList yesterday with some interest. I have to say it struck me…
The North punches below its full weight – but Corbyn won’t neglect it
A recent report indicated that of the ten poorest regions in the whole of northern Europe, nine are…
Labour lost because voters believed it was anti-austerity
Today the Independent Inquiry into why Labour lost announces the first of its findings. We set up the…
If Labour can’t get past our political and emotional dissonance, we deserve to be out of power
The Labour party is immersed in a massive debate in how it all went wrong in May 2015…
Why we’ve launched ‘The Labour Campaign to End Homelessness’
This article is written by Sam Stopp and Dr Martin Edobor The last Labour government achieved a great deal…
If the Labour leadership listens, it can learn from the party in local government
It is right that local government has featured prominently in the Labour leadership debate. All four candidates are…
We’ve already tried Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative electoral strategy and it didn’t work
I’m going to start by listing a bunch of things that I believe to be self-evident truths: The…
Labour’s failure had little to do with organisers in the field
The fortunes of the Labour Party will not change until and unless the Party re-organises the purpose of…
