Corbyn for Shadow Chancellor
Let’s not get carried away: he might not win the Labour leadership. But after such a strong performance, surely he deserves a Shadow Cabinet job.
Labour’s English problem will persist until they learn to understand – and love – England
From Kaufman calling English Votes on English Laws ‘racist’ to Thornberry’s sneering flag tweet, the left just don’t get England.
Which is to blame for the Greek crisis: socialism, or EU integration?
Spoiler: it’s both, actually.
Labour should beware polling on the leadership race
Burnham is ahead, apparently – but that could just be because he’s comparatively the best-known.
Jeremy Corbyn, ConservativeHome’s favoured candidate for the Labour leadership, in his own words
Why is he standing? “Diane [Abbott] and John [McDonnell] have done it before, so it was my turn.”
Please stop pretending the bank bailout made a profit for taxpayers
Brown and Darling began this fantastical claim. A Tory government should not perpetuate it.
Dugdale is right to reject a separate Scottish Labour Party
All a unionist party does by dissolving its British connections is signal to the electorate that the SNP are right.
Five lessons from Wintour’s insight into Project Miliband
From the harm done by Ed Balls to quite how the Edstone actually got approved, here are they key elements.
Charles Kennedy, and the heartache of losing your seat
To many Parliamentarians, rejection by those to whom they have committed themselves has the force of marriage breakdown.
Unite seek to force Labour even further to the left
They tried it in Falkirk, then they tried it with Miliband. What could possibly go wrong the third time?
Labour leadership candidates line up to criticise the manifesto they were selling two weeks ago
Where were they to condemn these bad ideas before May?
Cllr John Wall: What are the Liberal Democrats for?
The party built itself up by being all things to all people, and was undone by power. Will it make the same mistake again?
Ed Balls was crucial in keeping Britain out of the Euro. And for that, we owe him thanks.
It was Balls who assisted in devising the Five Tests – and all the rest of the shamanistic show that was devised to keep Britain well and truly out.
Umunna bows out of Labour’s leadership race. Do new candidates now come in?
He has been exposed “to the added level of pressure that comes with being a leadership candidate. I have not found it to be a comfortable experience.”
A letter to Labour
I know you don’t want to hear from your opponents right now, but it would be really lovely if you could grant me a few requests.