Miliband and Balls need to be more vocal in support of the Robin Hood Tax
Labour needs to come out and tackle the UK government’s misleading claim the Financial Transaction Tax, aka the Robin Hood Tax, is just a ‘Brussels tax’.
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Let’s end the tyranny of the big six energy companies
Andy Atkins calls on readers to join Friends of the Earth’s “Final Demand” campaign, and explains why the ‘Big Six’ energy companies need their dominance ended.
The Purple Book: Bland and tragic
Carl Packman reviews ‘The Purple Book’, concluding: “On what the book did say it was bland; on what it didn’t say it was tragic.”
As energy company buckles, Miliband needs to pick more battles
Ed Miliband’s success on reforming the energy sector shows a new high-risk, high-reward strategy for him: fighting the entrenched interests others won’t touch.
Commons to vote today on Labour’s five-point plan for jobs
While the Lords votes on the NHS reforms, Labour will use an Opposition Day Debate in the Commons to debate the economy, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
Cameron the global statesman contrasts with Miliband’s wholly domestic speech
Having been wholly omitted from Ed Miliband’s leader’s speech last week, David Cameron put foreign affairs at the front of his conference speech today.
Miliband quizzed on disability reforms, apologises for omission from speech
Ed Miliband apologised for not defending disabled people from attacks by the Tories and right-wing press in his conference speech, reports Shamik Das.
Slowly but surely, Ed’s speeches are getting better
Asher Drasner analyses Ed Miliband’s Labour party conference speech yesterday, and concludes that his style, slowly but surely, is improving.
Social housing needs a ‘New Deal’
Kevin Gulliver argues that the social housing system needs to be re-hauled under a ‘New Deal’.
Were Tories even watching the same speech as the rest of us?
As yesterday’s round-up of reactions to Ed Miliband’s speech shows, it could be interpreted in a number of ways. Some saw it as a deliberately low-content affair, others as “actually quite funny“, while Left Foot Forward’s own Ed Jacobs sawtest