Government should be joined up and grown up
Civil servants: they’re really rubbish, aren’t they? Always getting in the way, blocking things, dragging their feet, ignoring…
Government
Which departments might Labour axe?
George Eaton – recently announced as the new Political Editor of the New Statesman – has a story…
Don’t look back in anger
“A new dawn has broken, has it not?” These were the words of Tony Blair, shortly after a…
The government are trying to tell you that you’re not squeezed. They’re wrong
Have you heard? You’re not squeezed anymore. That’s right! After four years of prices rising faster than wages,…
Government of the people by the people
Abraham Lincoln gave us the Twitter-friendly definition of democracy in his Gettsyburg Address in 1863: “government of the…
The Floods? Our centralised system of government is to blame
When public officials blame the weather, you know there’s something wrong. When Tory MPs are angry at the…
Labour can change Britain… if it answers these 10 questions
This year Labour has to start thinking beyond May 2015 and start planning for power. As Luke Akehurst…
20 months to transform society
If we haven’t quite yet won hearts and minds, Labour has certainly captured the imagination and the political…
It’s time to offer some hope and aspiration to those struggling
David Cameron’s government are failing Britain. In 2010 when the nation rejected a Conservative government and instead voted…
Yesterday’s Commons defeat for the Government shows they must think again on Defence Reform
Yesterday, MPs voted by a margin of 91-0 calling on the Government to halt their reductions in the…
