Labour’s plan for the arts is right but it should include reversing cuts
Last week I found myself in a small theatre in North London watching We’re Not Going Back, a musical…
Ellie Mae O’Hagan
This is the most important election ever – let’s get our facts right
Let’s face it. Things aren’t great are they? I won’t reel off a list of figures about inequality,…
Labour’s unwillingness to state the importance of trade unions: good for business, bad for everyone else
Rachel Reeves gave a speech at Bloomberg yesterday. That Reeves is orating about social security at a financial…
Politicians who recognise that Cameron is wrong on immigration must have the conviction to say so
On Tuesday, David Cameron said Britain would be a “better, stronger country” with fewer migrants. So, if you’re a…
Deflation and a rise in real incomes aren’t down to Tory policies
The sight of Labour MPs clucking at David Cameron like chickens at yesterday’s PMQs might have distracted LabourList’s…
Charlie Hebdo: perhaps we can take inspiration from satire’s ability to humanise us all
It’s hard to know what to say about the Charlie Hebdo shootings beyond expressing abject sadness. Everything else…
The campaign victories of 2014
As we start looking to the new year (or at least the bit before May), I thought it…
We need to talk about domestic violence – now
We need to talk about domestic violence. We need to talk about it now, because austerity is making…
When governments stop funding them, art institutions end up being used as PR tools
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not…
There are only so many ways to say it: Something needs to change
It’s a crisp November the 5th evening, and while you lot are probably outside celebrating the execution of…
