Is Cruddas/Alexander the divide in the Shadow Cabinet?
The rumblings over Labour’s policy offer continue today. With the party’s big “Warwick 3” National Policy Forum meeting…
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Why yesterday’s letter to the Guardian was a mistake
Well this is a tricky one. Some of my best friends in politics – including the editor of…
Labour needs to go bigger and bolder, not just to win but to govern too
There’s a letter in the Guardian today (posted below) which I, and a cross-section of “a coalition of thinktanks and…
Politics – the one blood sport you have to take part in
The perhaps apocryphal advice given by Tony Blair to David Miliband was (supposedly): keep smiling out in front……
The pay policy pressure cooker
As Fair Pay Fortnight begins, the unrelenting ferocity of this government’s assault on the pay of working people…
Narrowing polls have brought Labour’s anxiety out into the open
Earlier this week I asked why the Labour Party seemed so calm when there was so much to…
Why this disruption of our pensions will lead to another debt and housing bubble
Imagine if the government decided it was no longer going to tax you, and you were free to…
Rebalance the economy to workers and the regions
We heard this week from the Tories and Lib Dems how their economic plan is on track and…
Under 45? You’re being screwed.
“What do you think of Western civilisation?” A journalist once asked of Gandhi. “I think it would be…
The Tories are in trouble, because the Tories have no idea who “they” are
I realise that by even writing this piece I’m in danger of coming across as po faced –…
