Progressive Politics is dying, and unless Charlie Kennedy and Diane Abbott can pull a very surprised rabbit from a hat, not a single party shows any inclination in making this country a fair and decent place to live.
Before the election, Labour’s claims about Tory plans to cut child tax credits were dubbed “lies”. Labour was exonerated yesterday as the truth was revealed.
Nine months ago Nick Clegg vowed to remove government special advisers’ salaries from the taxpayers burden. He is now spending £165,000 on his two spads.
None of the minority parties from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would be represented on a new cross-party committee on reforming the House of Lords.
David Cameron’s Welsh secretary will only sit on one cabinet committee; by contrast, the Scottish secretary will sit on eight.
Liberal Democrats pitch themselves as centre-left progressives. But in 18 councils they have formed governing coalitions with the Tories.
Our guest writer is Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (@jimkillock) Progressive politics stands for justice and understanding, and facing up to corporate special interests to defend the public good. Yet somehow those corporate special interests havetest
If you were to draw up a tag-cloud of common phrases that dominated the political blogs in 2009, as the year wore on, you would have seen the dominance of the word “liberty” giving way to an increasing concern withtest
The SNP will have to consider whether Ms Sturgeon remains an asset to her party as its deputy leader, not least after her involvement in the “Lunchgate” saga.
The Conservative’s use of statistics have again come under scrutiny. Philip Hammond has made an “unfair comparison” of insolvency figures before and after 1997.
