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Luke Akehurst Articles

The end of the beginning?

Well that was a rubbish week, wasn’t it? We Labour activists seem to have had quite a few rubbish weeks since 2005. This one struck particularly close to home as two of the star players contributing to Labour’s woes were fellow members of the Hackney Labour party...
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New Year’s resolutions for Labour

If you haven’t already made any New Year’s resolutions, here are my suggestions for collective resolutions that the party, from top to bottom, should make: •    Don’t panic. We have turned into a bunch of neurotics who act like headless chickens whenever the polls...
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No need for jitters

In the last couple of weeks we’ve had an outbreak of panic on Twitter and blogs caused by one good joke by David Cameron at PMQs (unlikely to be remembered by any voters by 2015)  and an uptick in the Tory poll numbers following Cameron’s 'veto' at the EU summit. The...
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The big picture revealed

There are some weeks when the coincidence of political events means anyone watching the news can’t avoid seeing the big strategic picture of what is happening to society, who is causing it, and what the choices are facing the country. This week is one of those weeks....
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