I was on Ken Livingstone and David Mellor’s LBC 97.3 show this morning, speaking in support of Ed Miliband’s plan for a 10p tax rate funded by a mansion tax, and how I would go about cracking down on tax avoidance in the unlikely event George Osborne were to call me up. My favourite moment […]
This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward. I grew up in a household that had voted Labour since time immemorial, but aside from a second preference vote for Ken Livingstone in last year’s London mayoral elections, I have never voted Labour in my life. I came of political age at the height of
Sixteen years of age, a naive young activist who’d read a bit of Marx and wanted to make the world a better place, I was walking along Lowestoft high street when I encountered a stall of scruffy-looking men campaigning against the impending Afghanistan war who were saying all the things I identified with. They called
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This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward When David Cameron blindsided Ed Miliband with an in-out referendum on the EU last month, he hoped to deal a devastating blow to the opposition by painting the Conservatives as the party of democracy with its finger on the pulse of public opinion against an out
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It’s a bit of a cliché to fall back on the Bible of Monty Python if you’re a lefty, but when you’re dealing with something as timeless as Life of Brian, it’s no surprise there are parallels more than 30 years on. When John Cleese’s militant cries “but apart from better sanitation and medicine and
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