How to engage young people? Information and Choice
As a young person (well, 25) I feel somewhat qualified to comment on how the Labour Party can…
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How do you solve a problem like Austin the attention-seeker?
Last week Austin Mitchell popped up in the Mail on Sunday (perhaps the most virulently anti-Labour paper there…
Schools that show what’s possible
This week the school where I was a deputy head teacher got it’s first ever exam results with…
10 things the Government can do to help the high street
As new high streets minister Penny Mordaunt plans to embark on a national town centre tour, Labour’s high…
Scotland: we need a federal future
Gordon Brown is right, the work on a more sustainable settlement for the UK must begin the day…
11 ways CLPs should invest in their online presence before the election
With an election nine months in the future and with the Conservative’s enjoying a fiscal advantage over us…
We shouldn’t be forced to choose whether we’re Scottish or British – we can be both
Less than a month to go until Scotland’s referendum and I’m now sixty meetings into my 100 open…
Labour must be the party for the socially excluded
This week David Cameron announced an extension of the Troubled Families programme. Since then, the right wing press…
Young people are political, we need to show them politics is worth their time
Energetic. Ambitious. Optimistic. Passionate. Working with young people for nearly a decade taught me they’re the most likely…
Labour’s London bias causes more harm than we realise
Yesterday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) election results was yet another confirmation of a London bias in the Labour…
