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The Crosby show 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
There may be good reason for Lynton Crosby’s return to strike fear into Labour hearts, warns Rafael Behr The rule in politics is that something has gone wrong when the adviser becomes the story. The ...
Right from the start 27 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
A lifelong partisan of the conservative cause, Lynton Crosby’s techniques helped the Australian Liberals to a string of victories, reports Stephen Mills The only Australian to have built an internati...
If not now, when? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq...
Full steam ahead 27 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
Labour must continue to back High Speed Two. The case for High Speed Two is as strong now as when Labour committed itself to the project in March 2010. The key justification is not speed but capacity...
Rural Britain and Labour’s lost message 23 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Between April and September 2012, nearly 21,000 people used food banks in the south-west of England, while, in this year alone, 5,000 people have regularly used food banks in the county of Norfolk. Th...
We need a campaign to build one million homes 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Last weekend Richard Rogers’ renowned architectural practice Rogers Stirk + Harbour built a three-storey house in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in under 24 hours. Spacious, modern and environment...
The politics drought 23 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
Your guide to surviving when the political world is on holiday The summer holiday is always a dull time for us politics fans. It’s a bit like the end of the football season. We start getting withdraw...
Zero power on zero hours 23 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
There is a cost of living crisis facing millions across the UK. The signs are clear to all – the weekly shop is more expensive, the energy bill never seems to stop rising and day-to-day living expendi...
Great Burnham would … 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Andy Burnham’s summer interventions over Labour’s future showed that he is a street-fighter gradually emerging from the cocoon of being a junior member of Labour’s post-1997 class of golden children –...
Human rights challenges for a Labour government 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Human rights are core Labour values, rooted in equality, universality, and solidarity. Together with a group of other Labour activists, I have formed the Labour Campaign for Human Rights. Our aim is t...
