A few days ago, just after Labour’s annual conference closed in Liverpool, the party put out a groundbreaking and hugely powerful ‘PPB’ (party political broadcast) that shook the whole ‘Westminster […]
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis has appeared in the New Statesman today calling for Labour to occupy the ‘high moral ground’ by adopting the full IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) ‘working […]
Labour General Secretary candidate Paul Hilder has taken an unusual approach to his application. Perhaps as a response to his status as a long-odds outside prospect, Hilder has set out […]
PoliticsHome‘s Kevin Schofield has tweeted an ‘anonymous source’ claim that the left is ‘panicking’ because Unite’s Jennie Formby ‘hasn’t got enough support’ for her candidacy for the position of Labour […]
Last week, the New Statesman published an article claiming that Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘inner circle’ was riven by divided opinions on key Corbyn allies, on Corbyn’s loyalty to his front bench and […]
An interesting item popped up in the Twitter feed this morning. The New Statesman‘s deputy editor had had a bit of a ‘pop’ at the SKWAWKBOX on Wednesday – it came […]
Earlier today, the New Statesman‘s George Eaton posted an article titled Who really controls the Labour Party now: Eaton caused some consternation among pro-Corbyn Labour members – who make up the […]
Interesting couple of days. Yesterday, defunct Labour MP Michael Dugher gave an interview to The New Statesman in which, along with the Canary, he ‘name-checked’ the SKWAWKBOX. He did so […]
Confirming its new status as the hostile mouthpiece of the Lib Dems, the New Statesman has run an article by former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott under a headline of […]
A woeful article by George Eaton in the now-LibDem New Statesman contains an extraordinary – and extraordinarily ill-advised – admission by a right-wing Labour MP. George Eaton’s attack piece, which […]