Miliband gets his retaliation in first
Of course Ed Miliband isn’t really like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. If he was he’d have been eating…
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5 summer reads for the politically minded
Each year I spend a good chunk of the run-up to the Summer holidays cajoling overworked PPCs and…
The mess left by the Trojan Horse
The Peter Clarke report into the Trojan Horse allegations in Birmingham schools is an impressive piece of investigative…
Why Labour should make energy efficiency their top infrastructure priority
Melting into a sweaty puddle in a boiling hot office it’s easy to forget the winter, and the…
Who governs: governments or business?
Who, in reality, makes the rules we live by? This is a question that has grown in importance…
On policy, Labour needs to do to the NHS what it has done on rail and energy
“A radical manifesto which transforms our society… A new settlement for our country”. That was Angela Eagle’s promise…
The policies are great, but what about the money?
After four years of massive cuts, 2015 is the year when council finances will start to fall off…
Londoners don’t want a staffless, soulless Tube system
The London Underground is the single most important piece of public infrastructure in the capital. Over three million…
Fairness dictates that we show concern for both sides
We have all been shocked to see the surge in violence between Israel and Hamas and Islamic Jihad…
Labour changes track – and now it can win
Labour has not generated many headlines this week. There haven’t been game-changers. David Cameron wasn’t trounced in Prime…
