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Today's PMQs looked like it was going to be one of those relatively sedate, quiet and polite sessions today. Everyone wanted to talk about the floods, and both Ed Miliband and the Prime Minister were determined to be serious and…
For today's PMQs, I expected drudgery. Or at the very least "dredgery". All politicians must - in these flood times - feign an intimate knowledge of the importance of dreading, silt, man-made canals and flood defences. None of which is…
Rachel Reeves’s announcement last week that Labour are considering increasing JSA payments for those with four years’ worth of National Insurance contributions won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the development of Labour’s…
1) Keir Hardie enters parliament 2) Mary Barbour’s army wins rent controls 3) Jennie Lee creates the Open University 4) Scots join up to the International Brigades 5) Victory in the UCS work-in 6) John Smith leads the Labour Party 7)…
So Nick Clegg has left the stage at Lib Dem conference with the applause, well, not exactly thundering in his ears as such, but certainly trickling into them. It was a performance that started off well but petered out into a soporific…
For over a hundred years, the Labour movement has been at the forefront of social reform. The very conception of the Labour Party came out of a huge sense of social injustice, the belief among the reactionary establishment that working…
For many in the Labour movement, July 31st, 1998, isn’t a memorable date: it’s no 1900 ‘Khaki election’, no 1924 first Labour Prime Minister, and no 1997 landslide. However, the first UK National Minimum Wage Act was indeed a historic…
Only two days ago I was sitting in a field in Glastonbury. To say that the last 48 hours have been a long time in the Labour Party would be an epic understatement. Anyone waiting with baited breath for an example of Athenian debating in the…
It seems a far cry from the Epsom Derby to Facebook, but the centenary of the death of Emily Wilding Davison should be a moment to mark. A hundred years on from the shocking death of a suffragette, we should remember not just the trials of…
"We want to start a war" - Woolwich attacker "right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose" - Ingrid Loyau-Kennett Only 24 hours ago, news began to trickle through about a barbarous crime, committed on the streets of…
