What would the first 100 days of a Miliband government look like?
The Times have a fascinating front page today(£) which gives an insight into the early priorities of a…
Government
British politics trundles towards the abyss – what are we doing about it?
The Labour Party’s response to a worsening polling position has been remarkably sanguine. For a long time, there…
Rotherham shows how badly the government of Britain needs to change
‘They viewed these girls as an astronomer would look through a telescope at planets.” That’s how MP Simon…
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…
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…
