The media focus is on the general election – but there are some big local election battles coming too
On Easter Sunday, I thought I would put politics aside for a couple of hours and settled down to…
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The problem with paranoid leadership
Ed doesn’t have it. Gordon Brown probably did. Some of the Parliamentary Labour Party do. It makes the…
“People deserve a better campaign than the one the Tories are running” – Douglas Alexander’s State of the Race Memo to party activists and members
Here’s Douglas Alexander’s latest state of the race memo – which LabourList readers can read exclusively before anyone…
Is this a co-ordinated media attack on Miliband’s personal life?
Two national newspapers have splashed on Miliband’s love life this evening. Lets get two things out of the…
Labour’s non-dom tax proposal is not an attack on London
It is easy to characterise, as the right-wing press was quick to do, Labour’s two tax changes, on…
Tory education policy – a serious threat to the state education system
Yesterday the Tories made a telling announcement on education: if primary school pupils fail exams, they’ll be forced…
Cooperating is a value, not a brand
Have you ever been to Beamish – the Living Museum of the North? If you haven’t, you should. It…
After non-doms – 5 other ways Labour could ensure tax justice in Britain
Yesterday’s news cycle was dominated (pardon the pun) by Labour’s announcement that it would abolish the non-dom rule.…
The Tories haven’t changed: they still don’t respect lone parents
Child maintenance payments – perhaps £40 or £50 a week – might not seem like a lot to…
The way the Tories have dealt with Labour’s non-dom announcement shows why the election is still up for grabs
In an election, a sort of “fog of war” can often descend. A day in an election is…
