Why we need a People’s Politics Inquiry
In a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday evening I launched an Inquiry in to the crisis…
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Dear George Galloway. If you want Labour to win, shut up and go away…
Oh look – George Galloway has popped up in the papers again. The Evening Standard has interviewed him…
PMQs Verdict: The importance of defending your record
Today there was a PMQs. Remember them? It’s when Ed Miliband asks David Cameron questions and the Prime…
Sorting the welfare reality from the welfare myths
The first time the bus leaves for a school trip that you can’t afford to go on is…
If we are serious about government, we need to learn to play the expectations game better than this
Last weekend an Independent exclusive reported that Labour had made an in-principle decision not to stick to Tory…
What I have learned
In December 2010 I was introduced to Ed Miliband by Lord Maurice Glasman. Up to that point I…
Galloway won’t be rejoining the Labour Party – but Miliband was still wrong to meet him
There’s been a certain amount of (entirely justifiable) anger and confusion from many Labour supporters today at reports…
We’re not “all Thatcherites now”
When David Cameron said we are all ‘Thatcherites’ now on the morning of Baroness Thatchers funeral he not…
No Labour Chancellor should contemplate adopting Osborne’s economic figures
In the new edition of the Fabian Review magazine, I make the case for Labour to ignore the temptation to…
Could Labour Govern?
What if Labour did win power in 2015? My new pamphlet, Future Shock, argues that a future Labour…
