UN development summit: Obama brilliance can’t hide poor performance on MDGs
The summit on Millennium Development Goals was wowed by President Obama, but the progress on achieving the MDGs is way off track, writes David Taylor.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Leading Labour strategist says Labour must recapture the south
Patrick Diamond today writes about the importance of reconnecting with C1 and C2 voters, and targets southern England outside London as the key battleground.
It’s Ken v Boris the rematch
Ken Livingstone beat Oona King decisively to secure the Labour nomination – 69%:31% – and will battle Boris Johnson for the London Mayoralty in 2012.
Ed Miliband projected to win Labour crown
Left Foot Forward’s latest intelligence on MPs and MEPs does not give David Miliband enough support to win. Ed Miliband is likely to win the leadership crown tomorrow.
John Healey’s fight for the “squeezed middle”
Next Wednesday, nominations will open for Labour’s shadow cabinet election. With 14 male members of the current shadow cabinet chasing a maximum of 13 places, one of Labour’s big guns can expect to be disappointed. One man hoping for antest
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals – can we do it?
The chair of the APPG for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, Jim Dobbin MP, writes about whether we can meet the Millennium Development Goals.
Our union balloting laws stem from the Tories’ love for all things Hayek
Ruwan Subasinghe, a lawyer at the International Transport Workers’ Federation, on the background to the nation’s trade union laws.
War on anti-social behaviour needs more bobbies on the beat
Sir Denis O’Connor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, has today delivered a blunt assessment of the fight against the “disease” of anti-social behaviour.
An economics lesson for Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP today sets out the Government’s case for its accelerated spending cuts programme. His article owes more to politics than economics.
Labour’s record on child poverty: ambitious, radical and innovative
Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, Gregg McClymont, reviews a new book assessing Labour’s record on eradicating child poverty.