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The Paul Richards column When the 9th April came along this week, I had a nagging feeling the date had some significance. It struck me that instead of forgetting a birthday or wedding anniversary, it was the date of polling day in the 1992…
The Paul Richards column It is exactly 21 years to the day since around 200,000 demonstrators marched from Kennington to Trafalgar Square to protest against the introduction of the poll tax. A smaller breakaway group took direct action…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Speaking today at the Progress political school, shadow defence secretary will give a discuss "How we win back lost voters?", with particular focus on the relationship between modernisation, New Labour…
Yesterday we brought you exclusive extracts from the new chapter of Peter Mandelson's "The Third Man". Today we're able to bring you more extracts, including Mandelson's thoughts on Ed Miliband and New Labour, and crucially - how to beat…
By Sue Marsh / @suey2y Peter Watt wrote a fascinating post on Detoxifying the Labour Brand yesterday. It's certainly true that, currently, the "brand" is toxic - but is the party? Our biggest failing during the election campaign was…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's been talk in recent days of the party abandoning the final traces of "New Labour" (in email form at least). That Ed Miliband wants to consign New Labour to history's dustbin is hardly newsworthy…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women It's tricky to write a portrait of Mo Mowlam (1949-2005) in a few hundred words, when so many millions of people feel they knew her personally. Indeed, it is this quality which lingers after wordy…
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant Last week was the week when we - finally - dealt with head-on the subject of Labour's economic legacy. And we seem to have been debating it ever since, because it's perhaps the most important subject which…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Ex-MP David Chayor has been jailed for 18 months over fraudulent expense claims. The BBC reports that: "(Chaytor) submitted bogus invoices for IT consultancy work and claimed rent he never paid on homes…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women Barbara Ayrton Gould (1886-1950) may seem an unusual choice of Labour woman to profile. I've chosen her for two reasons. First, her early life was full of drama and spanned the most important…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women In the Poplar area of London, a school now sits on land which was scarred by several large bombs during the Second World War. It was the first building to be reconstructed as part of the 'Live…
By Ryan Thomas Compass chair Neal Lawson and Guardian journalist John Harris have recently volleyed an ideological football into the left-of-centre chatterati, with various iterations published at the New Statesman, The Guardian, and here…
