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The Olympics Romneyshambles
Posted on July 26, 2012 by Adam Ramsay | 3 Comments
Mitt Romney broke the first rule of politics: he told truth. If it wasn’t close to the bone, his comment that London isn’t ready for the Olympics wouldn’t have touched a nerve. As it is, the “joke” was a boot straight in Cameron’s funny bone. The Olympics is, of course, politically complex. It has all [...]
Miliband kicks nurses and unemployed young people
Posted on May 9, 2012 by Adam Ramsay | 4 Comments
Friday was Ed Miliband’s day. Labour’s rise in the local elections revived his leadership and gave him a chance once more to articulate his message without the media sniping at his heals. Such opportunities are rare for party leaders – the space to say what they want to say, the time to craft a message, [...]
Galloway’s win should be a wake up call to the left
Posted on March 30, 2012 by Matthew Butcher | 15 Comments
This morning Ladbrokes will begin the biggest payout in British by-election history. George Galloway, who entered the race as a 33-1 outsider, has won the Bradford West election by a country mile. This sort of shock to the parliamentary political system is rare and and easily dismissed but it should come as a challenge to all [...]
Hundreds join UK Uncut’s Downing Street Dole Queue to tell George Osborne that ‘Austerity Isn’t Working’
Posted on March 21, 2012 by Admin | No Comments
Nearly 400 UK Uncut protestors gathered to form a ‘dole queue‘ outside Downing St today to highlight soaring unemployment under the government’s austerity programme. Unemployed people from across London came together with members of the anti-austerity direct action group UK Uncut to recreate the Tories’ iconic 1979 election poster featuring a queue of jobseekers snaking [...]
David Cameron: Leading Tory Feminist?
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Alyson Macdonald | 4 Comments
It seems that blue feminism is now becoming so fashionable that even the men of the Conservative party are trying it out. This week David Cameron – once described by Louise Mensch the as the “most feminist Prime Minister” we’ve ever had – has suggested that companies should be encouraged to have at least 30% [...]
Ed Davey and me
Posted on February 3, 2012 by Jonathan Kent | 1 Comment
Jonathan Kent was a student environmental activist alongside the newly-appointed Energy Secretary, and argues his early green consciousness gives grounds for hope.
The end of opposition
Posted on January 15, 2012 by Matthew Butcher | 12 Comments
Yesterday the official opposition gave up. In a packed room at The Insititute for Education Ed Balls finally confirmed what many of us have been thinking for a while: The Labour Party aren’t the alternative. As the cuts continue to bite, the wages of workers remain stagnant and the economic outlook for the UK remains [...]
Defending Health and Safety
Posted on January 8, 2012 by Alyson Macdonald | 4 Comments
I have a confession to make: I’m a big fan of health and safety. I’m not just saying that just to be contrary, or because I like everything the Tories don’t and vice versa – I genuinely think that it’s a good thing. Workers’ Memorial Day exists because of the thousands of people who have [...]
Youth Unemployment: Government Policies Aren’t Working
Posted on October 13, 2011 by Alyson Macdonald | 5 Comments
Figures released by the ONS this week have revealed that unemployment is now the highest that it has been since the early 1990s. There are now 2.57 million people unemployed in the UK, and just short of 1 million – 38.5% of the total – of them are under the age of 25. The coalition [...]
Kill electoralism, not the NHS
Posted on October 13, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 4 Comments
So that’s it then. It’s all over (bar the committee and third reading). The lords didn’t save the NHS. Despite all the petitions, all the tweets and hashtags, despite adopting lords and blocking bridges the amendment from lords Owen an Hennessy that could have derailed the bill fell by 330-262 votes. The Health and Social [...]
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