Hard lessons from the east – but time to love our activists
The front page headline on this weekend’s Cambridge News is “It’s not all blue,” recording Labour’s success…
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Speaking ‘human’ – what I want from our next leader
I wrote this article on my laptop in bed. Like Labour activists up and down the country, this…
Labour will never be credible without convincing people of its economic credentials
Possibly the most striking thing about his resignation from the Labour leadership is how easy people have found…
We should focus on those we seek to serve
On Friday Newcastle Labour held its traditional post election do to thank the volunteers who had worked so hard…
If the leadership contest becomes a “Blairite, Brownite, New Labour, Old Labour” slanging match, we’ll learn nothing. And we’ll all lose
It’s only forty eight hours from Ed Miliband’s resignation as Labour leader and the level of nonsense being talked about…
Let’s not rush this, it needs to be a primary
Leading the Labour Party after this defeat will be the ‘thirteenth labour of Hercules’, as one activist put…
The politics of belonging: Why we need an English Labour Party
It will take some time to fully understand Thursday’s disaster. But the most difficult conclusion may be the…
Social justice in changing times
Yes it’s early. But the debate will be upon us very soon. Let’s be absolutely clear: the platform…
We motivated our activists, not the country
We have become a party that looks and thinks too much like me and too little like…
We saw it coming
Outside of the bubble of the short campaign, Labour MPs knew earlier this year that the kind…
