This new think tank has radical ideas for transforming our economy
Image Credit: Chris Saltmarsh A new radical think tank has launched with the backing of leading politicians and social movement campaigners. Common Wealth aims to develop new models of democratic…
Ed Miliband Shares Some of the Greatest Responsibility for Brexit – Can We Please Stop Trying to Rehabilitate Him?
Ed Miliband, former Labour Party leader. Image credit: flickr user Plashing Vole I often think back often to the optimism of 2010. Yes, Labour had lost an election,…
Next, Ed must stand up to the Mail when it bullies the vulnerable
photo - Uncyclopedia This is fun. For those of us who have always hated the Daily Mail, the last week has been, as one tweeter put it, “Christmasy”. It…
Disabled campaigners reveal Labour's own forced labour scheme
Today, Labour MPs abstained on draconian emergency legislation being rushed through by Iain Duncan Smith to allow the government to keep benefits they withdrew because claimants failed to keep up…
Scott Walker vs Ed Miliband – lessons from Wisconsin
The analogy is obvious. I suppose it isn't surprising: when an official opposition is visionless, it is the grassroots who lead. But when it comes to elections, it is still…
Miliband kicks nurses and unemployed young people
Friday was Ed Miliband's day. Labour's rise in the local elections revived his leadership and gave him a chance once more to articulate his message without the media sniping at…
Ed Miliband – Dick of the year
This is a nomination from Dan Lee for Ed Miliband in the Bright Green Dick of the year 2011 award. To nominate someone, just email 200ish words to editors 'at'…
Labour, loveable institutions, elections and the real big picture: a scattershot attempt to start a painful discussion
02:59 in a bedroom in Belfast is the wrong time and place to get deeply restless and fired up for a new, robust, proud and striving social democracy. And, as…
5 reasons Caroline should be speaking
Caroline Lucas hasn't been invited by the TUC to speak at the march on Saturday. If you think she should be, email 1) It's good for the message: Caroline Lucas…
Nothing new under the sun in Cancún
World Development Movement press officer Kate Blagojevic writes from the climate summit in Cancún, Mexico. Follow her on Twitter at On the last day of the talks at Copenhagen, I…