Notes on a bleak political scene

By Brian Barder Some disconnected thoughts on the present discontents: David Cameron’s merciless, if tiresomely and unnecessarily repetitive,…

UK Inc.

The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column “The problem is that the State will soon be larger than the…

The Neal Lawson interview

Neal Lawson is the Chair of Compass, the centre-left campaign group. He met Alex Smith on Tuesday, 16th…

Entrench Labour policy in law

By Mike Smith The Government needs to expand on Yvette Cooper’s announcement last week and start to entrench…

What it means

@LabourList Editorial Never has a week been a longer time in British politics. It was only seven days…

What is the Alternative Vote?

By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft This post was first published on NextLeft. The BBC reports that Gordon Brown…

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