Chuka Ummuna: Demonisation of immigrants shames Britain
Chuka Umunna has launched an outspoken attack on the “demonisation” of migrants during the EU referendum campaign and…
Language
Labour must be the party for the socially excluded
This week David Cameron announced an extension of the Troubled Families programme. Since then, the right wing press…
Tony Benn: why words matter
With Tony Benn’s death comes an immense amount of sadness, a man of great conviction is gone. But…
5 things we learned from the Hunt/Reeves interviews today
There has been considerable interest today in interventions from Rachel Reeves and Tristram Hunt today on their new…
A few words about words
Talk is cheap – especially in the blogosphere. But this doesn’t mean that words don’t matter. Sometimes words…
5 new economic messages for Labour in 2012
The Guardian today highlights a little anxiety among the Shadow Cabinet about the difficulty in finding the right…
The language battle
Rereading Andrew Adonis and Stephen Pollard’s 1997 book A Class Act: The Myth of Britain’s Classless Society, illustrates…
