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Rachel Reeves MP writes about why she is standing for the Conference Arrangements Committee. I joined the Labour Party when I was 17. The following year I had my first chance to attend Conference. I've been attending Conference every year since, including one year...

The problem when you are asked to review a political biography is: do you review the book or the subject? I will try and do both. Let me say at the outset that this is a good read. Or rather, it becomes a good read. The book is written chronologically and the first 40...

A year ago, the government's NHS white paper set out bold rhetoric about putting patients in control. In future, they declared, there would be 'no decision about me, without me'. Stealing Labour's mission to put patients at the heart of health service reform, the...

It is rare for a book on class to gain as widespread media interest as Owen Jones has achieved with his debut. Ironically, it is Jones' critique of the ‘chav' stereotypes portrayed by the media from Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to Big Brother's Jade Goody which has...