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From @LabourList In the second of four posts running up to New Year's Eve, LabourList looks back at the three months from April to June 2009: the drip-drip of revelations on expenses continues, LabourList's first editor steps down in the…
By Julian Ware-Lane / @WareLane As the decade draws to a close I thought I would have a go at listing my top ten political moments of the last ten years. This leaves me as a hostage to fortune as I am bound to have overlooked something…
From @LabourList In the first of four posts running up to New Year's Eve, LabourList is taking a look at a selection of the best work from across the political blogoscape that reported - and made - the political news in 2009. Alex Smith has…
By Peter Thomson The best thing about the 'Nye Bevan is the one wot done it' piece the other day was that it made me revisit the original 1942 Beveridge Report and review what the fundamental function of the Welfare System is and that is to…
The Paul Richards column Is there a new concerted attempt to suggest the Labour Party is riddled with communists and subversives, who were filling their boots with Moscow gold during the 1980s? The Spectator has been running a series of…
The Paul Richards Column Last week I wrote about the pop music that influenced me, and many others, in the Labour Party in the 1980s. Since then, I've been reflecting on the television dramas which guided a generation towards left-wing…
By Ellie Gellard / @BevaniteEllie On a bright Tuesday morning on the seafront in Brighton the stage was set. Gordon Brown was about to give his "make or break" speech and nerves were in the air. The hall was packed with expectant members…
By Mike Ion / @MikeIon Labour in government "contributed almost nothing new or imaginative to the pool of ideas with which men seek to illuminate human nature and its environment". You may be surprised to learn that these words were not…
By Anand Menon So the big beast of the New Labour jungle has publicly declared his willingness to work within a Conservative government. Taken in isolation, Lord Mandelson's admission might come over merely as selfless devotion to Queen and…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This article was first published in the Total Politics Guide to Political Blogging 2009-2010. You can buy the book, with the list of the top 300 political blogs in the UK and articles on the blogscapes of the…
By Greg Rosen / @GR1900 When Sam Perry, father of tennis star Fred, founded the first Co-operative Party headquarters ninety years ago in a London still suffering Zeppelin raids, few would have predicted that within thirty years it would be…
The Paul Richards column History was one of the few subjects I really enjoyed at school. I was taught it by a teacher called Dick Small. He went on to be a Tory election agent, but he can be forgiven for that ideological crime (although not…
