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156 years ago today James Keir Hardie was born into grinding poverty in a one-bedroom cottage in North Lanarkshire. It was a hard life. Labour’s original founding father was first sent to work as a message runner for a shipping company at…
I’ll let you into a guilty secret: I’m a sucker for brass bands. As a Yorkshireman who grew up about thirty miles from Durham, and a Labour activist with half my family from South Wales, I am still stirred by the solidarity thing. I…
Ed Miliband won PMQs today, and with relative ease. Don't take my word for it - even ConHome agree. Although, strangely, the Comical Ali-esque CCHQ Press Officer Ric Holden argued otherwise. Of course Miliband had the most open of open…
Okay, I’m getting confused. Explain this one to me. Today we get the chance – the historic chance - to begin the process of removing once and for all a totemic, emblematic symbol of British inequality. Yet Labour MPs seem to be turning…
My constituents are struggling badly as the deflationary effects of George Osborne’s austerity Budgets and 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review bite ever harder and deeper. Thirty two jobless people now chase every job vacancy advertised in…
Tony Blair is guest editing the Evening Standard today, to mark the five year anniversary of him stepping down as PM. As part of that, he's been interviewed by the paper's editor Sarah Sands. Here are some of the stand out quotes from that…
The results of Labour's NPF election are as follows: East Midlands BROOKFIELD, Julie 2,010 Elected ELLIOTT, Dawn 1,473 Elected (Quota) FARNSWORTH, Marietta 1,363 FURLONG, Andrew 2,399 Elected GLOVER, Mark 2,096 Elected LOWE, Julie 1,382…
In 1894 Keir Hardie, leader of the Independent Labour Party, wrote: “the life of one Welsh miner is of greater commercial and moral value to the British nation than the whole Royal crowd put together, from the Royal Great-Grand- Mama to…
If the Budget is an ‘omni-shambles’ then David Cameron’s performance at Prime Minister’s Questions was a mega-shambles. Something definitely has changed. The Tory forced laughter is more forced. The Prime Minster’s lack of a grip on the…
“The End is nigh. The devil is amongst us and we will all suffer for not acknowledging the true messiah.” This is not a Ken Livingstone joke, but what the bloke outside my work window screams; whilst holding up a placard claiming that we…
