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Why Ed Miliband was partly right but can’t do anything about it

Yesterday afternoon, I was idly muttering about Ed Miliband’s speech with one of my colleagues who I think wouldn’t be averse to being described as a proper Newish Labour type. We were discussing the changes to benefits and so on … Continue reading

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Beware weak Labour

The most negative story for Ed Miliband – in a weekend of a high number of unhelpful comments – was the leaking of the speech David Miliband planned to give if he was chosen as leader. Unlike the Balls papers, … Continue reading

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Why Mehdi Hasan Is Wrong About Tony Blair

Mehdi Hasan has an extraordinary piece on the New Statesman blog asking the question, “Is Blair the best man to give advice to Labour in 2011?”  It may as well have been phrased, “what can Labour possibly learn from three … Continue reading

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Picking a crowd for crowd-sourcing

A while ago, I listened to a debate on Radio 4 about crowd-sourcing which turned out to be considerably less interesting than I had hoped. But I’ve been trying to make some conclusions for ages, because it’s a central part … Continue reading

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The Purple Book is Cameron’s Big Opportunity

A piece a couple of weeks ago by Rachel Sylvester (£)attracted a lot of attention. “Purple and orange: united colours of a coalition” it describes efforts by “New Labour” to revive itself and to make itself relevant to the Labour … Continue reading

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