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Liam Brynes crazy-juggling
Mark Ferguson writes on LabourList that a benefits cap is a good idea but not if it includes Housing Benefit. Liam Bryne seems to be attempting a similar kind of crazy-juggling, on the one hand saying… more →
The Osborne Effect
wrote 2 months ago: The LabourList website has an illustration of how [in]effective the Tory Liberal Government have bee … more →
Labour’s budget response was a missed opportunity
wrote 2 months ago: This post was originally published on LabourList. You can read it here. The Party leadership is in d … more →
Crises, Politicians, and the Mirror of Erised
wrote 4 months ago: The Children’s Act (2004) outlaws only forms of smacking that leave “grazes, scratches, abrasions, m … more →
Byrne and Beveridge sitting in a tree …
wrote 4 months ago: Liam Byrne delivered a speech about Beveridge, work and the welfare state at the London School of Ec … more →
A dose of realism required
wrote 4 months ago: Anthony Painter at today’s LabourList identifies four broad tribes in the Labour party: the hard rea … more →
Liam Brynes crazy-juggling
wrote 4 months ago: Mark Ferguson writes on LabourList that a benefits cap is a good idea but not if it includes Housing … more →
The left’s new divides- my response
wrote 4 months ago: I wrote a response to Anthony Painter‘s blog on Labour List. You can read it here. Great post, Antho … more →
LabourList: Ed Miliband needs to stop trying so hard
wrote 5 months ago: This post was originally published on LabourList. You can read it here. Not across the board, that w … more →
Why the Osborne story matters....
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wrote 8 months ago: Mark Ferguson has a piece on LabourList calling the current swirl of stories around George Osborne … more →
Dan Hodges is a symbol of all that is wrong with the left....
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wrote 9 months ago: ‘We are the left’ says Dan Hodges on LabourList, ‘we stop Nazi’s marching, w … more →
The last thing Labour needs is its own 'Tea Party'....
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wrote 10 months ago: Although, as anybody who reads this will know, I am left-wing and want Labour to enact left-wing, so … more →
Labour and Enterprise - A reply to Alex Smith and Luke Boizer.....
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wrote 11 months ago: This post on LabourList by Alex Smith and Luke Boizer caught my eye this morning. Not least because … more →
The leadership question just wont go away....
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wrote 12 months ago: LabourLists most recent State of the Party survey doesn’t make particularly good reading for E … more →
Bringing Back Keynes
wrote 1 year ago: On Tuesday I wrote a guest post for Labourlist, about bringing Keynes back into the public domain th … more →
The Dangers for Ed Miliband
wrote 1 year ago: Brian Barder has published a damning piece on LabourList describing Miliband’s demands for Cla … more →
I will not weep when Thatcher dies - but I won't celebrate either
wrote 1 year ago: Like most other people on the left, Margaret Thatcher is my biggest political influence. Because of … more →
A year's a long time in politics
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wrote 1 year ago: Here’s my latest Labourlist article on my first year as a councillor. … more →
In praise of...Trafford (Labour)
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wrote 1 year ago: (This post first appeared yesterday on LabourList.) A couple of weeks ago I wrote an open letter to … more →
Be prepared- 2011 election?
wrote 1 year ago: Election 2011? Does Dave want a divorce? First of all, I hope you all had a great easter in the su … more →
