Paul Nowak column: ‘Britain needs a living standards Budget’
£14,000. That’s how much extra households have paid in mortgage, energy, loan, and water bills since 2021. From…
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Nick Brown’s Christmas Card (part 2)
Earlier this week we showed you the front of Nick Brown’s Christmas card. This is the reverse (although…
LabourList to publish “One Nation Labour – debating the future”, edited by Jon Cruddas
A few weeks ago Labour’s Policy Chief Jon Cruddas Guest Edited LabourList on the theme “One Nation”. The…
Taking the lead on tackling inequality
We know these are the toughest times that most of us have ever experienced. We’ve know we’ve suffered…
Today we got a glimpse of why the Conservatives are probably going to lose the next election
If the British economy starts to recover quite vigorously in 2013/14, the Conservatives will have a much better…
British banks are still too big to fail
This week could see Ed Miliband’s first big test on banking reform. The parliamentary commission into banking standards…
PMQs verdict: David Cameron kills off the Big Society
Well that wasn’t quite the pre-Christmas knockabout PMQs we were all expecting. In fact, it was largely on…
Miliband on the Big Society
David Cameron walked right into Ed Miliband’s trap at PMQs, by linking the Big Society to Britain’s growing…
A cut as incompetent as it is callous
Ed Miliband’s recent description of the Tory-led coalition as a “make-it-up-as-you-go-along, back-of-the-envelope, miserable shower”, rings depressingly true given…
Nick Brown’s Christmas card (almost as good as last year’s)
Nick Brown’s Christmas Card is always worth keeping an eye out for. We like this year’s effort, but…
UKIP candidate’s rambling “personal manifesto” appears to suggest “compulsory abortion” for Down’s Syndrome foetuses
Update: UKIP have now disowned Clarke and said he will no longer be a candidate for the party.…
