What Labour should do about honours
The publication of the 2013 New Year’s Honours List should remind us of the unsatisfactory character of the…
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Labour will never credibly out-do the Tories on a “tough” approach on welfare
Long-term unemployment has exploded in the last 2 years: a gut-wrenching 146% increase. That’s not down to an…
There’s nothing Labour about unemployment – but compulsory work is only worthwhile if it’s good work
The compulsory job scheme plans announced by Ed Balls this morning have received a thoroughly unsurprising response. The…
Why do Nick Clegg’s mistakes irk me as much as they do?
Nick Clegg has started the New Year as he means to go on – further tying himself and…
2013: in Labour’s do-or-die year, it’s the strategy of hope versus the strategy of hopeful
The audacity of hope: it worked for Obama in 2008, and it is an important quality for an…
Miliband’s One Nation or Cameron’s national liberalism – which will win out in 2013?
The story of UK politics in 2012 is in essence a simple one. David Cameron managed to stoke…
Fare Enough?
Today, fares on London Transport have increased above the level of inflation for the fifth time in a…
5 key aims for Labour in 2013
By Mark Ferguson and Marcus Roberts 2012 was the year that Ed Miliband secured his leadership of the…
Labour’s 5 biggest events of 2012
By Marcus Roberts and Mark Ferguson The conventional wisdom is that 2012 ends much as it began: government…
The end of local government as we know it?
A few days before Christmas, the Government announced the latest local government finance settlement for the next two…
