What Eric Pickles wants you to see, against (FOI) the reality
Today the Independet reveals that Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and his officials tried to suppress information that could…
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Labour MPs are almost as bad as Tories when it comes to hiring relatives, data shows
At least 72 Conservative MPs and 65 Labour MPs have employed family members as staff and paid for…
We need to shut down child sex abuse in seedy hotels, says Lisa Nandy MP
Lisa Nandy MP says we need new laws to help police crack down on hotels that host child…
The Tories have turned nasty. Now Labour must fight for Royal Mail to stay public
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has discovered how nasty Britain’s ‘nasty party’, the Tory…
The strange death of social democracy: what Labour can learn from the Left in Europe
European politics: a game involving up to forty-seven democracies. Terms last four to five years, and then the…
“In Brighton, no Labour women will be in calm down dear mode!” Harriet Harman celebrates Labour Women’s Conference
Anyone who hoped that the women’s movement had lost momentum or believed that there’s no fresh energy in…
Yvette Cooper talks tough on child trafficking and illegal immigration
Yvette Cooper MP says the government are not doing enough to stop child trafficking. The Shadow Home Secretary’s…
Who’s afraid of the big bad society? No one, after the Lobbying Bill gets through
One of my earliest memories of how mad left wing politics got in the 80s is of listening…
Royal Mail is being ‘sold off on the cheap’, says Chuka Umunna
Today, the government officially confirmed to stock markets that Royal Mail will be privatised in the coming weeks.…
Listen up, Bob Crow: an EU referendum is the last thing Labour needs
At the TUC conference this week in Brighton, RMT union boss Bob Crow asked his colleagues to back…
