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Time to stop blaming the media

‘Imagine my initial confusion’, tweeted Labour member of parliament Jess Phillips, ‘as I worked in sexual health MSM means Men who have Sex with Men’. The MSM, or the so-called ‘mainstream media’, has become the scapegoat for many about the grievances they feel with...

Too timid and too late

When the Labour party is using its devastating defeat of 1983 as a benchmarking exercise to analyse the 2015 election, something has gone seriously awry. But you would not necessarily know it if you read Margaret Beckett’s report in to why Labour lost a winnable...

The Last Word … BBC beware

It has been a well worn but largely unsubstantiated mantra in British politics for decades now that the BBC represents a left wing plot designed to foil Britain’s right wing. The ‘Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation’ has long been the bane of the Daily Mail and its...

Bacon and Greggs

The voters are not stupid, writes Matt Forde Of all the glosses that some have tried to put on the absolute thrashing that Labour received, the worst one I’ve heard was a party member saying, ‘Well, Ed actually increased our vote share so he deserves great credit for...