News A Mansion Tax to fund a 10p Tax Rate – Ed Miliband’s speech in full It is great to be here in Bedford. In 1957, the Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave a… 14th February, 2013, 11:12 am
News Tories to extend “unlawful” workfare schemes – Media and blog round up: February 11th 2013 Subscribers to our email list have been receiving our new morning daily email for over a week now… 13th February, 2013, 11:02 am
Video Stella Creasy’s Jukebox (for One Billion Rising) – with apologies to Coldplay… One Billion Rising is an international coalition of campaigners speaking out for action to tackle violence against girls… 12th February, 2013, 10:09 am
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