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Maurice Glasman Articles

Blown on course?

I’m not privy to what appeared on Labour’s media grid at the start of the week, but I doubt it included John Prescott telling a fellow Labour peer to ‘bugger off’ following an article in the New Statesman which appeared to attack the Labour leader, or by a massive,...

It’s the 1970s, stupid

As ‘Double-Dip’ George prepares for his U-turn and, in the words of Mary Riddell, announces a splurge of spending, there is an uncanny sense that we are reliving the 1970s. After the 25 years of mixed economy, state-owned, welfare state society that was put in place...

Rewiring the rules

Inequality is now an issue for ‘middle Britain’, Stewart Wood tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison When Ed Miliband made his first 10 appointments to the House of Lords last November, three of them were academics. None were exactly political neophytes: Ruth Lister,...

Job losses, poppies and border controls

Who won? The three themes of today’s PMQs were job losses, poppies and border controls and there wasn’t much else. David Cameron started off in a sombre mood, presumably because of this week’s Remembrance Day and the resultant general seriousness of the House. He even...