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I thought long and hard about what key things I would want included in the Queen's speech if Labour were in government now.  The majority of the residents in the ward that I represent in Brixton Hill will probably not take much notice of the Queen’s speech as evidence...

David Cameron’s latest back-to-the-1980s gimmick is to give a big bribe to council home renters to buy their property. As with his backfired stunt last week to depict fuel tanker drivers as the new Scargillites against whom the nation should unite, or the over-the-top...

In exactly one month’s time on Friday 4 May I will be up early to spend the day with my fellow ‘Yes to Birmingham Mayor’ campaigners waiting for the votes to be counted in the Birmingham mayoral referendum.  This is a historic vote for England’s second city and indeed...

While siren voices from both Labour’s revanchist left and atavistic right might seek to find a ‘message’ in the heavy defeat inflicted by George Galloway last week, his victory was an old, familiar and depressing tale with very little to teach the Left about anything....