Why do we bother?
I dare say like most people, there are times when as a Labour Party member I’ve asked myself…
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Are all prejudices the same?
On Saturday, I chaired a sparky question time style debate at the Fabian conference 2012 (which, incidentally, was…
Do we want humourless, inoffensive MPs?
Today there’s understandable anger that Tom Harris has been forced to resign from his role as a “Social…
Our democracy at risk
To be able to decide whether to cast one’s vote is fundamental to our democracy. Yet it is…
Economics by homeopathy
I didn’t see Ed Balls’ speech to the Fabian Society Annual Conference yesterday; I was a work. Well,…
Not scroungers anymore
What a week! What could I possibly write in a blog post? I have 500 stories to…
Yes, we do accept cuts
That was the key line from Ed Balls’s speech to the Fabian Society today, and it’s one that…
Jobs must be our priority
These are tough times and they require tough decisions. As I will say at the Fabian Conference tomorrow,…
The biggest critics of bad teaching are good teachers
When I think of what inspired me at school, it was the faith that my most determined teachers…
So you want to be a panelist?
I am a dreadful hypocrite. I loathe and despise two staples of modern political activity. The first is…
