Post bank announcement is welcome news
Our guest writer is Lindsay Mackie, a consultant for the new economics foundation Well, we have made progress. The Post Office is to get a dollop of £1,280 million Government (ie. our) money to provide...
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Guy Aitchison is editor of the Power2010 website and blogger at openDemocracy In an interview with the Guardian on Monday justice secretary Jack Straw went some of the way to answering the three...
View ArticleMandelson: Tories sit with “xenophobes & homophobes” in Europe
Lord Mandelson has gone on the attack over Europe and the extremism of the modern Tory party, attacking David Cameron for eschewing alliances with mainstream centre-right leaders like Angela Merkel and...
View ArticleDavid Clegg-eron, change you can’t believe in
If you can’t beat ’em, well, nick their best lines… that was the message sent out by David Cameron in his hastily arranged home made video Party Election Broadcast last night, in which he recycled a...
View ArticleLabour no longer loves Mandy
In YouGov’s Labour leadership survey, the headline figure of which saw David Miliband lead his brother Ed 54 per cent to 46 per cent (see my earlier post here), the Labour Party members and trade...
View ArticleExclusive: What Mandelson really thinks of Cameron
The paperback edition of Peter Mandelson’s autobiography, The Third Man, will be published on Monday, containing a new preface which brings the edition up to date, covering the Labour party’s...
View ArticleEU must learn lessons from past when looking at Jasmine Revolution
Leading figures from across the political spectrum have joined together to call on the European Union to reflect on the lessons of the fall of Communism two decades ago when considering how to respond...
View ArticleMandelson: Time to “stand up, win the argument, act decisively and lead” on...
Lord Mandelson will deliver a passionate defence of the euro in a speech in Singapore today, insisting it is in everyone’s interest it is saved, Left Foot Forward can reveal. The former European...
View ArticleMandelson weighs in behind National Investment Bank
Lord Mandelson has put his support behind a new report (pdf) from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) which calls, amongst other things, for the coalition’s nascent green investment bank...
View ArticleBalls and Mandelson call for Britain to take lead on growth plan for Europe
. With the British and eurozone economies stagnating, the election of an anti-austerity President in France, and political and economic turmoil in Greece, Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson have cast past...
View ArticlePost bank announcement is welcome news
Our guest writer is Lindsay Mackie, a consultant for the new economics foundation Well, we have made progress. The Post Office is to get a dollop of £1,280 million Government (ie. our) money to provide...
View ArticleReformers demand no more appointments to Lords
Guy Aitchison is editor of the Power2010 website and blogger at openDemocracy In an interview with the Guardian on Monday justice secretary Jack Straw went some of the way to answering the three...
View ArticleMandelson: Tories sit with “xenophobes & homophobes” in Europe
Lord Mandelson has gone on the attack over Europe and the extremism of the modern Tory party, attacking David Cameron for eschewing alliances with mainstream centre-right leaders like Angela Merkel and...
View ArticleDavid Clegg-eron, change you can’t believe in
If you can’t beat ’em, well, nick their best lines… that was the message sent out by David Cameron in his hastily arranged home made video Party Election Broadcast last night, in which he recycled a...
View ArticleLabour no longer loves Mandy
In YouGov’s Labour leadership survey, the headline figure of which saw David Miliband lead his brother Ed 54 per cent to 46 per cent (see my earlier post here), the Labour Party members and trade...
View ArticleExclusive: What Mandelson really thinks of Cameron
The paperback edition of Peter Mandelson’s autobiography, The Third Man, will be published on Monday, containing a new preface which brings the edition up to date, covering the Labour party’s...
View ArticleEU must learn lessons from past when looking at Jasmine Revolution
Leading figures from across the political spectrum have joined together to call on the European Union to reflect on the lessons of the fall of Communism two decades ago when considering how to respond...
View ArticleMandelson: Time to “stand up, win the argument, act decisively and lead” on...
Lord Mandelson will deliver a passionate defence of the euro in a speech in Singapore today, insisting it is in everyone’s interest it is saved, Left Foot Forward can reveal. The former European...
View ArticleMandelson weighs in behind National Investment Bank
Lord Mandelson has put his support behind a new report (pdf) from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) which calls, amongst other things, for the coalition’s nascent green investment bank...
View ArticleBalls and Mandelson call for Britain to take lead on growth plan for Europe
. With the British and eurozone economies stagnating, the election of an anti-austerity President in France, and political and economic turmoil in Greece, Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson have cast past...
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