The coalition is failing to tackle youth unemployment
Ruwan Subasinghe writes about the opportunities for David Miliband in tackling youth unemployment, even as the coalition cuts crucial programs which help.
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Blue Labour exclusive: David, Ed, Glasman and community organising
Left Foot Forward presents exclusive extracts from Rowenna Davis’s new book, “Tangled Up In Blue”, looking at David and Ed Miliband’s thoughts on community organising.
Nominations are now open for most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11
Nominations are now open for the most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11 – please send in yours
David Miliband: EU relations with “great national powers” are a cause for concern
Dominic Browne reports on David Miliband’s speech in which he expresses concern over EU relations with “great national powers”.
It’s Europe that will kill the Tory NHS reforms
Andrew Georgiou looks at the Tory NHS and welfare reforms and whether they will open up the service to European Union competition law.
Movement for Change: Developing responses to the challenges we face
Movement for Change will be reconstituted in the spring as a permanent home for community organising within the Labour movement, writes National Director Blair McDougall.
Tackling climate change requires a just transition to a low carbon economy
When he was environment secretary, David Miliband asserted that only Labour could tackle climate change. He argued that this was because only Labour recognised the need to intervene in markets. The Conservatives’ instincts, he said, would always pre-dispose them to solutions that stopped short of the measures necessary to set our economy on the route towards a low carbon, sustainable future. This, of course, was after the Stern report which had said that climate change was the greatest market failure the world had ever seen.
Miliband attacks “shoddy” fees scheme
Ed miliband responded to David Cameron on tuition fees today, attacking the “shoddy scheme” the government is proposing. Yesterday, the prime minister, in a column in the Standard, defended the trebling of fees, and said that “before protesting, students need to get the facts straight”. Today, the Leader of the Opposition said “universities and students deserve better” than what the government is offering.
Banks get the begging bowl out for small business lending fund
A group of six of our most prominent high street banks have got the begging bowl out again and headed for the Treasury, reports Ben Fox.
David quits – leaving 49 to fight for 19 places
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