Labour’s Islington problem
The sneering from the Islington dinner parties has been indiscreetly placed into the public domain
The Home Office and Ministry of Justice are the Lib Dems’ new battlegrounds of choice
It used to be Laws versus Gove. Now it’s Hughes versus Grayling, or perhaps even Featherstone versus May.
The ‘Green surge’ continues: Natalie Bennett should appear in the leaders’ TV debates
If Nigel Farage is allowed to feature in the debates, why not the Green Party leader, too?
The lesson of the fight for charter schools in New York
The humbling of Miliband’s star speaker Bill de Blasio shows how education reform divides the progressive coalition, and the limitations of localism.
Miliband starts rowing back on “zero zero Britain” after less than 24 hours
Today’s summary of yesterday’s speech contains a crucial edit of the Labour leader’s new soundbite.
Thus spake Miliband: less a relaunch, more a return to the same, old, failing themes
As Jeeves wisely advised, “You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
What’s wrong with Hampstead? In defence of Miliband.
As it happens, I live only a few hundred yards from his house.
Off with his Ed – are there enough Labour plotters to give Miliband the chop?
Like Charles I, the Labour leader can only be finished off by a sufficiently powerful alliance.
Ed Miliband is running out of excuses
For the New Statesman to attack the Labour leader for being too much of a Hampstead intellectual is pretty damning
What does the South Yorkshire PCC result mean for UKIP, Labour and the bookies?
Labour isn’t dead yet. UKIP isn’t as big as it claims. Bookies can be wrong. And Police and Crime Commissioners are still in trouble.
Pinning Down Miliband: What is Labour’s defence policy?
For a time it seemed that Labour might threaten credible Opposition on the topic – but then Miliband intervened.
Russell Brand is a secret agent of Grant Shapps
The main effect of his efforts will be to persuade younger left-wing people not to vote.
Labour’s paucity of ambition in Rochester and Strood
The seat was Labour-held until 2010 – it’s remarkable that they barely figure in the by-election.
The Lib Dems take to guerrilla marketing to “accidentally” get their message across
‘The only way this could have been more obvious is if point 1 had been “TELL THE ELECTORATE HOW SEXY NICK IS”.’
The disability charities should not demonise Lord Freud
Are the charities trying to break a taboo – or to enforce it?