Billy Bragg: Mr Miliband must be brave and bold on voting reform
Billy Bragg, in an exclusive article for Left Foot Forward, argues that the new Labour leader Mr Miliband must be brave and bold on the AV referendum next year.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The real “squeezed middle”
In his leader’s speech tomorrow Ed Miliband is expected to announce his intention to reach out to Britain’s struggling middle classes.
Large and growing gender gap in support for the coalition
Research by Populus has revealed that female voters are far less supportive of the coalition government across a range of topics, compared to male voters.
PI no. 5: Government information? Get the public to provide it!
The fifth in our series of Political Innovation essays – on getting the public to provide government information, by Lauren Currie.
The big split on deficit reduction is between Labour and Tories
The big split on deficit reduction is between Labour and Tories. The totality of Tory cuts’ plans are almost twice as severe as Alistair Darling’s proposal.
High hopes ‘Green Ed’ will put climate change back up agenda
Greenpeace has “high hopes” about Ed Miliband’s ability to hold the coalition to account, while Friends of the Earth describe as Labour’s greenest ever leader.
Memo to Ed: The challenges in Scotland and Wales
Left Foot Forward looks at the challenges facing the new Labour in Scotland and Wales, where there will be assembly elections next year.
The second dimension of deficit reduction
Labour’s economic direction is far from determined. But the ratio of taxation to spending is just as important a discussion as the speed of deficit reduction.
Cutting red tape? More like axing the green economy
The Government is abolishing15 environmental bodies, blowing another hole in its claim to be ‘the greenest government ever’, reports Guy Shrubsole.
Scrap 50p to introduce a land tax
The Fabian Society organised a policy Dragon’s Den earlier today. I suggested scrapping the 50p rate of tax to pay for a land tax.