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As a result of Alan Johnson’s resignation today, Ed Balls has become the new Shadow Chancellor. Inevitably there will be much speculation about the consequences this will have on Labour’s economic policy, given that Mr. Balls has argued so strongly against any cuts and even spoken out against Alistair Darling. Ed Miliband has tried to [...]

Ed Balls has recently stated in an interview that Labour had taken wrong decisions on civil liberties. In the interview with Andrew Marr, he described the efforts to pass laws allowing 90 days detention without trial as “a step too far”. The change of position from Labour inevitably has political consequences. I think it’s fair [...]

So, by a narrow margin, it’s Ed not David. And that “narrow margin” seems to have been the focus of today’s news and Ed Miliband’s comments to the press. It was the affiliate vote – and by extension union vote – that determined the outcome of the Labour leadership contest under the slightly unusual version [...]

If, like me, you have a tendency to skip through headlines and then read the interesting articles, David Miliband’s latest remarks might have seemed a bit defeatist. The idea that Labour may spend “years out of power” (although to be fair, it’s was hardly ever going to be just “months”) seems an incredibly pessimistic prediction [...]

Rarely is the question asked, “is our children learning?” –George W. Bush, 2000 Last week on The Big Picture*, Simon produced a special report on the state of the education system. The panel all seemed to agree that there wasn’t anything particularly wrong with the current state system, going as far as to argue that [...]

The recent allegations of bullying in Gordon Brown’s office are by no means the first of their kind. Andrew Rawnsley’s book merely suggested that people were shoved aside, as opposed to the more serious claims of mobile phones being thrown which have been circulating the internet for some time. On top of this, the National [...]