Cameron: I’m loving your election campaign, Labour

In the Labour Party, we’re very excited about the Alternative Vote referendum. In Westminster, of course, it’s easily crowding out debate on the (not unimportant) Scotland, Wales, Northern Irish and English local elections. Ooh, the Yeses. The Noes. It’s all that analytical, wonkish, procedural stuff that we love to debate. We seem to have spent… Continue reading Cameron: I’m loving your election campaign, Labour

Chávez and the TUC – further correspondence

Further to my open letter to the TUC published here last Thursday, there was a response published on Easter Sunday at LabourList by Jennie Bremner, Chair of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (and Assistant General Secretary, I understand, of Unite: The Union). So as not to subject LabourList readers to “Venezuela overkill”, I have written my response… Continue reading Chávez and the TUC – further correspondence

An open letter to TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber

Dear Brendan, I am proud of much of the work that the union movement has done in the international sphere over the years, including its support of the anti-apartheid movement and supporting fledgling unions in new democracies. So I write, first of all, to applaud that work. I’m also writing to you to highlight something you… Continue reading An open letter to TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber

Two views on nuclear power and the green lobby

Two independent views I’ve heard this week from people whose worldview couldn’t be more different. Firstly all power to green campaigner George Monbiot, whose astonishing revelations in the Guardian (thoroughly recommend the whole article) on the abuse of scientific argument by senior anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott went against much of what he once believed, as… Continue reading Two views on nuclear power and the green lobby

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