They say you should never meet your heroes because they will always disappoint you. They also say you should avoid cliches like the plague. I met Patrick Stewart when he came to speak at the Cambridge Union about his strong support for the Labour Party. I must admit, I didn’t really go to hear him [...]
Richard over at Lenin’s Tomb pretty much summed up how I feel about the Blair roadshow rolling into town, but it’s worth reflecting on the following lines from the memoirs:
Ed Balls was of the opinion that the public wanted even more spending and were prepared for the extra tax, by reference to polls that the [...]
As the Labour leadership contest enters its final leg, party members will be receiving their ballots in the post today. But while the national media is zooming in on a two-horse race between the two Milibands – one the candidate of continuity, the other of modest change – The Third Estate talks to Diane Abbott, [...]
You would not believe, to hear them, that they were at heart of new Labour project for at least a decade,” she said.
They were members of the Cabinet for the last five years. And yet, at hustings after hustings, they tell you ‘they disagreed with this, they disagreed with that, they don’t know why we [...]
It would be a bit like Gary Glitter worrying that his very good name had been damaged by a story that his hair was really a wig. The remnants of the New Labour elite – now campaigning to take over the leadership – are in a tizz. They are deeply concerned that Peter Mandelson has [...]
Like most readers of this blog, the Budget made me pretty angry – the VAT increase and tighter controls on benefits combined with the cut in corporation tax make a complete mockery of the claims that this Budget was ‘progressive’ in any sense, and millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people in this country [...]
Writing in today’s Guardian, the last standard bearer of the dead dream that is a socialist Labour Party hit out at critics by saying that if necessary, he would stand aside to secure Diane Abbot’s nomination for Labour leader. In fact, John McDonnell went further to say that “if my standing down would mean securing [...]
As the campaign manager for the ‘Ralph for Leader’ campaign, I’m pleased to confirm that Ralph Miliband, former lecturer in politics at LSE, Leeds and Roosevelt Universities, as well as former editor of The Socialist Register, will be standing for Labour Leader.
As mentioned by David Miliband, one of Ralph’s two sons, Ralph is currently “scratching his [...]
Well, it happened. Not quite as anyone had been expecting, but it happened. The moment we’ve dreaded for the last three years.
David Cameron is the new Prime Minister.
I can’t say I will be sorry to see Brown go. I can’t say New Labour didn’t deserve to lose this election. I can say I will be [...]
There have been rather a lot of people around the left and the Labour Party today saying that the Labour Party should not go into coalition with the lib dems, and should not vote for any proportional system. Well of course a proportional system would mean the labour party losing some seats but looking at [...]
