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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Thankfully, after a long winter, the signs of economic recovery that Gordon Brown has been craving for so long are beginning to appear. They are by no means definitive and there is evidently still a long way…
By Liam Byrne MP This week we've seen one of the key forward-looking indicators of business confidence - the purchasing managers index for Britain's services sector - move up to a 17-month high of 53.2 for July (surpassing expectations for…
By Paul Richards Peter Mandelson never says anything by accident. Not for him a rogue use of the word 'twat'. So when Mandelson raised the prospect last week of a televised debate during the general election between Gordon Brown and David…
By Shamik Das Today's front page lead on the Daily Express - Labour's £186bn Benefits Madness revealed that in 2009/10 spending on benefits would amount to a quarter of all State spending. The "madness" to which the Express refers is…
By Brian Barder Yesterday's Observer has a longish article by Richard Reeves, the Director of the think-tank Demos, in which we are invited to accept that "The "Prog[ressive] Cons" have seized control of the party. Whether they can make it…
By Tim Cheetham Most Labour folk, because we are entering the difficult 'redefining' phase of our existence, often get berated with a big list of reasons why we are crap - people, who never liked us anyway or (as is most common, because…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Hi Tim, I read your response to my original post in Piccadilly Circus. The old Virgin Records, which was Tower Records, is now an empty shell; Lillywhite's, in the building where my Dad worked in the '70s when…
By Kate Green Virtually every family in the country receives child benefit for their kids. This long established, near universal, well understood and popular benefit, paid to the main carer, usually the mother, has been the mainstay of…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Hi Tim, Thanks for your post earlier today and the invitation to engage on a series of policy matters. It's great to be able to discuss the big issues with you in this exchange between LabourList and…
By Alex Ross / @Alex_Ross1983 Remember when the cut in VAT was announced? Remember the furore surrounding it? The sheer anger it generated from newspapers claiming it was a waste of money, too hard to administrate, ineffective and leading…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter In response to the determination of Winston Churchill to return the pound to its pre-war Gold Standard level of four dollars 86 cents to the £1, John Maynard Keynes put pen to…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter In response to the determination of Winston Churchill to return the pound to its pre-war Gold Standard level of four dollars 86 cents to the £1, John Maynard Keynes put pen to…
