‘Our regional theatres are engines of growth. Labour should help them thrive’
Growing up in Norfolk, where my mother ran the local arts centre in King’s Lynn, I saw the…
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Want a conference pass? Good luck…
Update: It seems to have been fixed now. Get your passes while they’re hot… Labour Party conference is…
Nick Clegg says he’s sick of apologising – but what has he apologised for?
The Independent today Nick Clegg telling the Social Liberal Forum Conference that: “I have had it with apologising”…
Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s big problem? She’s not Birgitte Nyborg…
Helle Thorning-Schmidt – the real-life left-leaning first female Prime Minister of Denmark – has one big problem: she’s…
Osborne’s father-in-law was paid £24k for “unsalaried” ministerial role
According to the Mail on Sunday: “A Tory Minister is returning £24,000 to the taxpayer after being mistakenly…
Cardiff South and Penarth by-election candidate selected
Today Cardiff South members selected Stephen Doughty – the head of Oxfam Cymru – as the Labour candidate…
What Ed Miliband should tell the Durham Miners’ Gala
A few Labour blogging types were discussing Ed Miliband’s decision to attend the Durham Miners’ Gala on twitter…
Durham Miners’ Gala: Liveblog
15.00: A well received speech from Miliband but little new in terms of content – more significant for…
Why Ed is right to speak at “The Big Meeting”
Ed Miliband is being attacked for speaking at the Durham Miners’ Gala. Apparently, it’s symbolic of the “redness”…
(Olympic) Crisis. What (Olympic) crisis?
So we’ve banned cars from using main roads since January, paused the construction of Crossrail and the Shard,…
Labour’s lost voters – lego politics or grand design?
Another day, another initiative. Today it’s a new project called ‘5 million votes’ from a group of E-milibandistas.…
