The baffling recovery of Teflon Labour and Unpopular Ed
Politics sometimes throws up great mysteries. Why does public spending always rise and never fall? How did Gordon Brown ever become Prime Minister? Why is David Cameron still clinging to his pledge on...
View ArticleEd Miliband has given up on working people to keep the unions' cash
It appears Ed Miliband is preparing to bow to the inevitable. According to The Guardian he is planning to water down – or effectively scrap – his union reform proposals. “Labour suggests its changes be...
View ArticleEd Miliband's union reforms: hang on – why were we wrongly briefed?
The Collins report into Ed Miliband’s union reforms has just been published, and it’s clear that there’s a significant disconnect between what has been spun over the past few days and what has actually...
View ArticleWhen did the Left ditch democracy?
The Left once stood for democracy. In the tradition of the Levellers, the Chartists and the Suffragettes, the British Left once fought to take power away from the elites and dispersed it among the...
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