Parenting is a benign dictatorship. Sometimes smacking is necessary
I was on my way home after an hour’s toddler-wrangling in church when I picked up a copy…
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Ed gets his Mili-bonus
So Stephen Hester won’t be getting his bonus, having decided to decline it in fear that the commons…
NEC Report – January 24th
Partnership Into Power/Policy Review Report; Peter Hain reported on the extended period of consultation on the reform of…
A Memo for Tim Livesey
I don’t have a great track record of memo-writing. Peter Mandelson once walked into Downing Street and a…
The Tories would be right not to underestimate Labour
Recently Tim Montgomerie launched a campaign to encourage Tories not to underestimate Labour. Despite our recent difficulties, he’s…
There is no “normal” reaction to Auschwitz
Last November I took a trip with two hundred school kids, a few politicians and a selection of…
Do some at the Guardian have an agenda against Ed Miliband?
Apparently the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour and Nick Watt – political editor and correspondent at the Guardian respectively –…
How do deal with a social media mistake (and how not to)
The Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition were in Davos. Peter Mandelson has written a report…
Attacks that work, attacks that don’t
Here’s something we don’t hear often enough: Labour are doing ok in the polls. Consistently polling in the…
To be credible on the economy, Labour needs a Plan B – not a white flag
What steps should Labour take to regain credibility on the economy? The last few weeks have seen intensifying…
