David Miliband “well ahead on cash for leadership fight”
By Paul Goodman The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of "buying" the leadership election… Read more »
Memo to Ed Miliband: Don’t make Balls your Shadow Chancellor
By Paul Goodman As you may know, I wrote an open letter to you last month. It assumed that you'll… Read more »
Labour leadership contenders “turn on Mandelson”
By Jonathan Isaby Today's Times splashes on the attacks on Lord Mandelson by three of the contenders for the Labour… Read more »
What do the Labour leadership candidates actually stand for?
By Jonathan Isaby I have been wondering for some weeks what are the discernible differences between the contenders for the… Read more »
The Guardian is determined to subvert the Coalition’s marriage policy
By Paul Goodman Guido Fawkes wrote yesterday that Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat Education Minister, may blow her top during… Read more »
Blair thought Brown was “mad, bad and dangerous”, says Mandelson
By Jonathan Isaby Today is the final day of the serialisation of Peter Mandelson's memoirs behind the Times's paywall. Much… Read more »
Now Ed Balls says that even the cuts proposed by Labour at the election were too ambitious
By Jonathan Isaby Gordon Brown's reputation for sound economic management was blasted out of the water some time ago. But… Read more »
Cameron is “jolly” but has no fixed ideology, says Mandelson
The Times is beginning a serialisation of Peter Mandelson's autobiography, The Third Man. It's all behind Rupert Murdoch's new paywall… Read more »
The Green Party seeks state funding of political parties
I pointed out here during the election that Green Party are anything but cuddly – their policies are a far… Read more »
David Miliband admits that the Labour Government ignored local government for thirteen years
The Local Government Chronicle has the story: Labour leadership contender David Miliband has admitted that his party took councillors for… Read more »
Diane Abbott lambasts Ed Balls for his role in “aggravating” the recession
Labour leadership contenders are currently submitting themselves to interviews with the Left Foot Forward blog and today is the turn… Read more »
The TaxPayers’ Alliance unmasks the 38 trade union bosses taking home more than £100,000 a year
An excellent piece of research this morning from the TaxPayers' Alliance – the Trade Union Rich List. The TPA have… Read more »
Bob Crow calls for civil disobedience and mass strikes in protest at the Government’s “fiscal fascism”
As if evidence were needed that RMT general secretary Bob Crow remains the voice of extreme militant trade unionism, this… Read more »
Labour’s huffing and puffing won’t break the Coalition
Labour MP Tom Watson tweeted this last night: Is this really the most sensible approach that Labour could adopt? At… Read more »
Andrew Neil eviscerates Diane Abbott
When I was a reporter on the Sunday Telegraph during the early 1990s, Andrew Neil was viewed, in a certain… Read more »