Labour’s housing plans – better, but nowhere near ambitious enough
Today Ed Miliband launches the long-awaited Lyons review, which is intended to outline how Labour would solve the…
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Ed Miliband should take the best advice he can get – his own
Ed Miliband has received a lot of stick recently. The criticism has taken many forms. His style, his…
Transforming politics: we need examples as well as ideas
In recent years, the major institutions that affect our lives have been found wanting, at a great cost…
Clegg the Innocent
Never has there been a better example of naive little fishes swimming in a vast, Machiavellian pond than…
Labour’s Mr Micawber Election Strategy
Last week I wrote about Labour’s chances in the Rochester & Strood by-election. Things have moved on. First,…
Not a tax cut. A tax con
“In this election, as always, there is [a] choice. You can vote for our opponents, and watch them…
To be a party for all workers, we need to protect the self-employed
Ed Miliband pledged in his speech to conference last week to end a “21st century discrimination” and fight…
Freelancing needs a policy agenda of its own
The self employed are often the ‘most entrepreneurial, go-getting people in Britain’ . That is what Ed Milliband…
Six answers for Jeremy Hunt – and six questions
Today Labour activists will be out in force across the country to campaign on the NHS. They’ll have…
Whatever happened to Jobs and Growth?
I wasn’t going to write about the Ed Balls speech today. The pre-briefed announcements had left me underwhelmed,…
