Advertisement — responsive 970x250

News

Use the filters below to refine your search

Feature

PPC Profile: Charlotte MacKenzie

By LabourList

Full name: Charlotte MacKenzie. PPC for: The new constituency of Truro and Falmouth in Cornwall. Website: www.charlottemackenzie.com Selection Result: 86 per cent of the first preference votes from my home CLP in November 2007. CV: Local…

News

Introducing a week long special guest editor

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As of this morning, I'll be away until Tuesday 8th September, sunning myself on a relaxing holiday to the world's most relaxing destination, New York City. What made me thought this would be the right way to…

News

The top 100 blogs on the left

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 1 (1) Tom Harris MP 2 (2) Hopi Sen 3 (-) LabourList 4 (-) Alastair Campbell 5 (13) SNP Tactical Voting 6 (6) Luke Akehurst 7 (12) Harry's Place 8 (-) Next Left 9 (3) Stumbling & Mumbling 10 (27) The Daily…

News

New Diplomas are a positive step forward

By Shamik Das

By Shamik Das / @shamikdas Business leaders have praised diplomas and welcomed the five new subjects being introduced to schools in England today. The diploma, introduced a year ago, combines a strong vocational element with extensive work…

News

How will the internet affect the general election?

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last night, I had a discussion with Iain Dale about how the internet will affect the next general election, for the Westminster Hour programme on Radio 4. We spoke about Kerry McCarthy's new role, lessons from…

News

The ShortList – this week’s highlights

By LabourList

From @LabourList This is the LabourList ShortList, bringing you a weekly summary of the best content on the site over the last week and keeping you up to date with some of the current thinking in the Labour movement: PPC Profile: Kevin…

News

Mayor of Baltimore: Grayling’s comments dishonour our city

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPADTE: The Guardian, The Independent, The Baltimore Sun and LabourList all got hooked, lined and sinkered by this, which was a hoax inexplicably deisgned to deceive, arranged by LabourHome's Alex Hilton…

News

Blair’s series of lectures on Faith

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Tony Blair will be hosting a series of seminars and speeches in London over the autumn. Organised by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, in association with DFID, Islamic Relief, WorldVision and Oxfam, they will…

News

A good and decent man

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I didn't want to let this morning pass without marking the sad death of Teddy Kennedy. These words, which he spoke of his brother Bobby in 1968, will echo over the next few days as his own fitting tribute. "He…

Feature

PPC Profile: Kevin Bonavia

By LabourList

Full Name: Kevin Bonavia Age: 32 From: Southeast London PPC for: Rochford & Southend East Website: www.rselabour.com Selection Result: 75% on first round Member of the Labour Party since: 1996 CV: BA Hons degree in History from Birmingham…

News

Gordon: taking women’s rights seriously

By Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Gordon Brown has co-authored an artice on the Huffington Post, in which he talks about the continuing need to fight back against the oppression of women and girls around the world. The powerful post…

Become a Friend