A Lib-Lab coalition should not be dismissed out of hand
The most likely scenario in 2015 is a hung-parliament. Policymakers should be considering how they deal with that reality.
Ed Miliband
Labour finally seems to be moving away from centralised control over service delivery
The UK is the most centralised state in the developed world.
Ed Miliband is right to challenge the entrenched power of Whitehall
Having challenged the energy companies and Rupert Murdoch, Ed Miliband will now turn his attention to tackling concentrations of power within the state.
Forget challenger banks, Ed – and hand shares in RBS and Lloyds to the British public
It is easy to produce banker bashing sound bites in bonus season. But as Ed Miliband recently showed, it is rather harder to stop rhetorical flushes damaging the value of our unintentional investment in RBS and Lloyds.
Miliband’s been quicker to notice the effectiveness of competition policy on better banking
Ed Miliband’s speech shows that politicians of all stripes have had damascene conversions on their attitudes to the banking sector.
Competitor banks are needed to shake up the system
Competitor banks to shake up the system should primarily have community interests as its focus. What Miliband is signalling at today is a good first move.
Ed Miliband’s speech: fixing the long-term problems
The key is convincing voters that Miliband has the a better solution than George Osborne without creating a rod for his own back by claiming that he can completely ‘fix’ the economy.
The UK can learn a lot from Norway on childcare
Compared with other countries, in the UK there are complicated and inefficient mechanisms for the public funding of childcare.
Ed Miliband’s biggest challenge will be to convice a fatalistic electorate that government can make a difference
Miliband is not only taking on the Big Six energy companies, he is pushing back against a public fatalism about government power to effect change that has been over 30 years in the making.
The Daily Mail invoked an age-old antisemitic smear about disloyal Jews
The Ralph Miliband affair has shamed the Daily Mail, it must not be allowed to further pollute our politics.