Miliband must stop spreading myths about benefit claimants

By Tim Nichols Ed Miliband’s speech contained some tremendously important and bold attacks on powerful elites that have helped create and perpetuate today’s social and economic inequalities. Despite much to welcome it is important understand why many may be upsettest

Were Tories even watching the same speech as the rest of us?

As yesterday’s round-up of reactions to Ed Miliband’s speech shows, it could be interpreted in a number of ways. Some saw it as a deliberately low-content affair, others as “actually quite funny“, while Left Foot Forward’s own Ed Jacobs sawtest

Miliband’s speech: Press reaction

Ed Miliband has just finished his second speech as Labour Party leader, and the reaction from the press is mixed. Michael White from the Guardian is balanced but ultimately negative: Some good lines uttered, some false notes struck, some badtest