Cameron’s reshuffle – not exactly a purge of the “male, pale and stale”
This is not a reshuffle which should unduly concern Labour. While David Cameron has doubled the number of…
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The Tories economic offer? Rising poverty and inequality
Analysis published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has confirmed young people are being left behind by this…
Why the National Policy Forum matters
Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF) meets this weekend. Zzzzzzzzzzzz … I hear the reaction from all but the…
We need to hear your thoughts on race equality
By Sadiq Khan MP and Sharon Hodgson MP Over the last four years, the fight for race equality…
Too often we exclude disabled peoples’ voices – we need to let them speak for themselves
Disabled people generally, and those in receipt of social security payments in particular, have been at the harsh…
Charles Clarke Is a Very Poor Politician
I’ve just read Charles Clarke’s interview with the Huffington Post and I’m angry. I’m not – however –…
Working people need a strong voice in the very place that excludes them
It really is all too easy for us to despair as we see countless cases, not just in…
Government should be joined up and grown up
Civil servants: they’re really rubbish, aren’t they? Always getting in the way, blocking things, dragging their feet, ignoring…
Surveillance – do MPs really know what they’re voting for?
By Neal Lawson and Andrew Noakes We are losing our rights, our freedoms and a Parliament that acts with…
If our plans for a British Investment Bank are to succeed then we need to break up RBS
The importance of getting banking reform right is pretty obvious – banks are the engines of a…
