At the start of October, the uber-posh diaries of Smythson of Bond Street – stationer to the Queen and former employer of Sam Cam – announce the beginning of the pheasant shooting season. Strangely, it is silent on the arrival of autumn party confe... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
Unleashing talent
In a venue more familiar with a battle of the unsigned bands, Progress friends and family gathered to listen and share how to best unleash talent with workplace skills... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
Is it time for primaries?
Today I attended the fringe event jointly organised by Progress and the Institute for Government on whether we should have primaries to select Labour parliamentary candidates. In the... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
‘Ready for a fight’
‘I’m ready for a fight.’ That line more than any other summed up the resounding success that was this afternoon’s speech by Ed Miliband. It really was a very... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
Open to all? Part-time learning
With the media focus on undergraduate fees we are in danger of forgetting the four in 10 students who study part time, making yesterday’sProgress-Open University fringe – Open to all:... »
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Primaries: what works? Report from Liverpool
The debate about how Labour should select candidates to fight elections has been raging for years and it’s not new to hear conference delegates bemoaning selection procedures as anarchic,... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
Bold, brave and personal
This year’s speech was a big moment for Ed Miliband. A defining moment. His first real chance to tell the party and the country who he is and what... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
A mayor for Coventry
I am a confirmed believer in local government. Taking decisions as close as possible to the people involved makes good sense and we are in my view an overly... »
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What lies beneath
A new book by Tory MPs elected last year exposes a yearning for a more authentically Conservative agenda It must be hard for new Conservative MPs. After years of... »
Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
Labour can lead civic renewal
The open services white paper, launched by David Cameron, promises ‘more freedom, more choice and more local control’. At its heart is the notion that the state, with its... »
Left Foot Forward
Labour’s ModBacc offers a chance to get with the programme
By Amelia Peterson Andy Burnham yesterday announced at the Labour Conference plans for a ‘Modern baccalaureate’ that offers a different model of achievement to Michael Gove’s English Bacc. The... »
The Centre Left
The Centre Left’s conference week highlights
It's been an eventful week at my first conference in eight years, if extremely mixed politically (I know it's not over yet, but do you really think it's worth... »
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Chasing Conservative votes will not win us the next election….
Ed Miliband’s prodigious ability to get things totally wrong is becoming very vexing. In The Guardian today he is quoted …Continue reading » »
THE HONEYBALL BUZZ
Interview with Iain Dale on LBC about the Financial Transaction Tax
Last night I was on Iain Dale’s show on LBC. It was an interesting discussion on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) that was mentioned by Jose Manuel Barroso (President of the... »
Left Foot Forward
LFF’s most influential left-wing thinker of the year 2010/11 is Owen Jones
Readers of Left Foot Forward have voted Owen Jones, author of “Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class”, as the most influential left-wing thinker of the year. »
Left Foot Forward
Gove is the roadblock to Burnham’s calls of aspiration, aspiration, aspiration
Andy Burnham called today for Labour to go further than Blair’s call of “education, education, education”, saying that their new priorities must be “aspiration, aspiration, aspiration”. Miliband yesterday raised... »
Rupa Huq's Blog
Funeral of Riots Victim takes place: mayor reacts
Bumped into Ealing Council leader Julian Bell yesterday who had interrupted his attendance at the Labour party conference to dash back for the funeral of Richard Mannington Bowes the... »
Penny Red
News from Nowhere 2
Well, I'm back.* I spent two weeks on a tiny, beautiful ship, pitching and tossing in the middle of the high Arctic. I met a polar bear, a whale,... »
Jon Worth
The idiot in Brussels
(note: video is uploaded by UKIP, so they add their own vile header to the video. Thanks for @spignal for pointing out the film) Extraordinary ‘debate’ on Newsnight last... »
Labour Uncut
Fiddling while Athens, Lisbon and Rome burn
by Peter Watt I am worried, really worried. And not just about where the Labour party goes after this week’s leaders speech. Although I certainly am worried about that.... »
Young Labour Politico Blogger
Total Politics Blog #Lab11
You can read a blog I have published on the Total Politics Magazine website by clicking here. TSF »
Harpymarx
More dishonesty and damned deceit from Mister Ed
Ed Miliband obviously didn’t pick up a copy of Mind’s Daily Stigma as if he had he would have been aware of the self-perpetuating lies he was spouting at... »
Jane Is The One
occupy the streets – and then what?
the Normster posits the following four propositions as to what street protests such as occupywallstreet and others are about/for: "(1) The traditional structures remain central to the democratic process and... »
Labour Matters
“Young people who want to head towards work or an apprenticeship are left to fend for themselves”
Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference. Conference. What do you think of my home city? Brilliant isn't it? So welcome to Liverpool - or at least it was... »
Labour Matters
Labour will give every child a path in life
Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham has called on Labour to be the party for families who want to get on in life and want a better future for... »
Labour Matters
“The Tories and the Lib Dems are throwing away Labour’s golden legacy to NHS patients”
John Healey's speech to Labour Party Conference. Conference. We've heard powerful testimonies today in defence of our NHS from our panel, and in our debate. Thank you. Today we reject... »
Labour Matters
“Every Tory government since records began has seen crime go up not down”
Yvette Cooper's Speech to Labour Party Conference. POLICE TRIBUTE Thank you to Paul McKeever from the Police Federation for speaking to us today. For many years when our Party... »
Labour Matters
“Advice deserts being created as law centres and CABs close down”
Sadiq Khan's speech to Labour Party Conference. Conference. It's a privilege and a pleasure to be here today for the first time as your Shadow Secretary of State for... »
Labour Matters
“Our centres of local life are under threat”
Tessa Jowell's speech to Labour Party Conference. Conference, we meet today over a year since David Cameron told us he wanted to create the Big Society. How do we... »