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It would be overly-generous to talk about the "meat" of Ed Miliband's speech to the Scottish Labour conference the other day, ...

We can safely assume that when the referendum campaign gets underway properly, Labour will revert to their familiar comfort zone of fear-mon...

From 'Sophie', in a comment on the New Statesman blogs - "Ed is doing the right thing by focusing on England as that is wher...

Some news stories are beyond satire. From the Press Association (or possibly from a script for The Thick of It ) - "There are three...

I feel slightly queasy embarking on a post defending a Tory cabinet minister (let alone one of the Thatcher vintage), but here goes anyway. ...

From the fateful day in May that the Lib Dems turned their back on the possibility of a progressive coalition and entered a Tory-led governm...

I've just caught up with the first PMQs duel between Cameron and Miliband, and it was startling to see just how easily the new Labour le...

Just about the only Shadow Cabinet appointment that was utterly predictable was Ann McKechin's as Shadow Scottish Secretary - as a very ...

Now that Ed Miliband has moved Labour onto the ground occupied by many Liberal Democrat members and voters (if not necessarily the current p...

A few days ago, Political Betting stalwart John Loony shared a very funny letter he had written to the BBC, complaining bitterly about the...

In line with my disquieting new habit of feeling something approximating to goodwill towards the UK Labour leader, I actually found myself w...

So 72 hours and a keynote conference speech later, and it's still not entirely clear to what extent Ed Miliband represents an authentic ...

One of the most spectacular political conjuring tricks of recent decades occurred in 1993, when Labour somehow managed to convince the media...

I had anticipated that if Ed Miliband was to win, he'd either have to be ahead in the members' section of the electoral college once...

So Ed Miliband has dramatically overtaken his brother as the favourite to be elected Labour leader with just hours to go. It's unclear ...

If Oona King had been selected as Labour's London mayoral candidate today, and a Tory spokesman had reacted by poking fun at her gender ...

I've just arrived back from two weeks out of the country, and quite literally the only fragment of information I've had about UK pol...

When Michael Crick mused that it was very difficult to tell who had won the Newsnight leadership debate, I couldn't help wondering if w...