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The Hillsborough disaster was a national tragedy. Football is our national game. It always has been. Despite most cabinet members from the Thatcher government preferring to spend Saturdays at Twickenham rather than on the Terraces, football…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk New Labour is over. I've said this before, as has Ed Miliband. But don't take my word for it - or Ed's for that matter - it's now confirmed. The party's email addresses have changed. @new.labour.org.uk is…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Everyone has the own opinions on what happened in the 1980s, and how the "difficulties" (to put it mildly) of that decade led to the birth of New Labour in the mid nineties. But thanks to the latest…
By Owen Jones / @owenjones84 As we approach Labour's 106th annual conference, it's worth remembering what Thomas R. Steels envisaged the party was for. Steels was a railway signalman from Doncaster and, in 1899, drafted a motion for his…
By Robert Peaty If we were to poll Labour members on who they thought Britain's greatest Prime Minister was, I imagine about 90% of us would respond with Tony Blair. The other 10% would probably opt for Clement Attlee. No one would opt for…
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst Reading the press coverage of the revelations of Alistair Darling's rows with Gordon Brown over the need for spending cuts, I am torn between sympathy for the former Chancellor on a personal level, and…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Silly season is undoubtedly over (if, in fact, it ever started this year), as Alistair Darling becomes the latest New Labour doyen to release an autobiography - this time on the dog days of a tired Labour…
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand There was an intriguing post on LabourList from Alex White yesterday, but to me the piece seemed like a massively wasted opportunity. I've written many posts about New Labour , some more nuanced than others…
By Jamie Glackin In June this year, a group of David Cairns' close friends and colleagues put their thinking caps on and tried to think of a way to honour the memory of a terrific Member of Parliament. We came up with the idea of the David…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh Tuesday's outbreak of looting was a violent and unwelcome interruption to the busy calendar that is August in Manchester. At this time of year every date in the diary seems to denote a festival or a…
The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column An awful lot has happened in economic sphere over the past 4 years - the 'subprime crisis' of 2007 became the 'credit crunch' of 2008 which morphed into the 'Great Recession' of 2008-09, economic…
By Jos Bell Nye Bevan probably enjoyed the sound of his own voice - and so he should, for with his vocal harmonies came a cadence of reason, words of wisdom and a vision for a safer future. Powerful thoughts for difficult times, when people…
