Comment Cheap, nasty politics – how the Bedroom Tax will affect people who are far from “scroungers” In recent days the ‘bedroom tax’ has shot up the political agenda. The Sunday People, displaying the very… Jon Ashworth 11th February, 2013, 12:55 pm
Comment We need to detoxify “Localism” By Tudor Evans The Coalition Government’s definition of localism appears to be freedom for local government to make its… 8th February, 2013, 4:48 pm
Comment The government should follow Lambeth’s example and tell people about huge benefit cuts If you found that ten of thousands of your fellow citizens were facing severe cuts in their living… Lib Peck 8th February, 2013, 12:23 pm
Comment One Nation Labour must avoid Britain’s ‘lost decade’ The Government was proclaiming recently that the economy was ‘healing’ given the recent improvement in unemployment figures and… Zaffar Van Kalwala 7th February, 2013, 3:30 pm
Comment The movement IS the policy – why changing the way the party works is bigger than Clause IV Last night Jon Cruddas gave a speech at the Resolution Foundation on Labour’s Policy Review. Much of the… Mark Ferguson 7th February, 2013, 9:04 am
News Yvette Cooper’s Equal Marriage speech Yvette Cooper has just made the following speech in the House today on the Equal Marriage Bill: ———… Mark Ferguson 5th February, 2013, 1:45 pm
Comment What’s going on at the MoD? On Tuesday evening last week David Cameron said he wanted to ring-fence the entire defence budget from 2015.… Jim Murphy 5th February, 2013, 10:56 am
Comment The Tories haven’t given up… Last Tuesday’s vote in the House of Commons on parliamentary boundaries was a good victory for the Labour… Wayne David 4th February, 2013, 10:30 am
International Development Weekend Co-ordinating defence and development is essential for conflict prevention The most effective defence policy is not always a new piece of military hardware – it can be… Jim Murphy 3rd February, 2013, 11:00 am
Featured It’s the jobs, stupid… The Millennium Development Goals were a bold and challenging agenda, and it is absolutely right that we should… Owen Tudor 2nd February, 2013, 12:55 pm