Bill Morris: A Trade Union Miracle by Geoffrey Goodman
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Archive for May, 2010
Bill Morris: no other black Briton has risen so far on his own merits against such great odds
By Denis MacShane /Thursday, May 27th, 2010David Miliband’s statement
By David Miliband /Thursday, May 27th, 2010What counts now is next Labour: that’s why I’m standing to be Labour’s next leader
NHS: And the reforms go on and on…
By Jill Palmer /Thursday, May 27th, 2010The new coalition government’s NHS plans seem strangely familiar
Are we really better off out of it?
By Kevin Meagher /Thursday, May 27th, 2010The decision by the Labour Party to sit back while the Lib Dems and Tories made a deal may turn out to be a historic mistake
The people’s pullover
By Tom Miller /Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Something has changed on the Labour Party’s leadership website, and we can’t say for certain that all is well.
Yes folks, candidate John McDonnell’s scarlet red v-neck jumper has made a surreptitious appearance, after he was pictured on the same site yesterday wearing a suit and tie. Nobody else seems to have changed their picture.
Perhaps this is symbolic of Mr McDonnell’s desire to see the party make a shift left from the politics of New Labour. While I would like to cautiously welcome this iconoclastic move, I think it is worth taking stock. Firstly, the suit look wasn’t bad at all. It was a good photo! Secondly, this kind of thing has all been tried before, and without the effect that McDonnell presumably desires.
Murray mints our imperial history
By Nathaniel Mehr /Wednesday, May 26th, 2010The Imperial Controversy: Challenging the Empire Apologists by Andrew Murray
Manifesto Press, £12.95
By Tribune Web Editor /Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog’s The Bad Lieutenant. Read Neil Young’s review
Have we sold our souls to the Devil?
By Cary Gee /Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Well, it seems that those who voted Lib Dem did…
A cool non-conformist in the Church of Jazz
By James McGowan /Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Wayne Krantz
Ronnie Scott’s, London
How the nominations stack up
By Oli Usher /Tuesday, May 25th, 2010There are various unofficial counts of how many nominations the candidates for Labour leadership have. The Labour Party website is updating its list twice a day (at 12.30 and 17.30) with those who have formally nominated one of the candidates, rather than those who have merely expressed support.
So far, the tally is:
Ed Miliband: 39
David Miliband: 36
Ed Balls: 7
Andy Burnham: 3
Diane Abbott: 0
John McDonnell: 0
Only Ed Miliband has nominated himself so far.