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Jan 5

Believe in Ghosts

The chances are that by the end of the month you will have bought a hardback book by JR Moehringer. Even if you don’t purchase one, you’ll soon find it hard to avoid phrases by the American Pulitzer Prize-winner across all your media feeds. …

Writing

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Believe in Ghosts
Believe in Ghosts
Writing

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Jul 7, 2022

BEXIT day is a danger for Starmer

There is much rejoicing in the land at the exit of Boris Johnson. BEXIT day is finally on the way. However, despite popping champagne corks at Southside, this represents a moment of peril for Keir Starmer and Labour. …

Politics

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BEXIT day is a danger for Starmer
BEXIT day is a danger for Starmer
Politics

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May 17, 2022

A local candidate for local people

‘Walkout over Labour candidate choice’ is the headline screaming from the BBC website, with similar stories of a Labour leader rocked by the mass desertion of local party activists. Except this wasn’t Wakefield on Sunday, but Rotherham in November 2012 when 80-plus Labour members walked out of the meeting which…

Labour Party

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A local candidate for local people
A local candidate for local people
Labour Party

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May 7, 2022

I’m telling you…the joy of telling

BY PAUL RICHARDS There’s an interesting debate to be had about the differential impact of traditional campaign methodology, the ‘ground war’, on the actual results of local elections. Often the best-laid plans are stymied by the pesky voters: target seats are lost and ‘unwinnables’ send unlikely, or even unwilling, victors…

Elections

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Elections

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Apr 15, 2022

Wakefield — the by-election both sides must win

Wakefield — the by-election both sides must win All eyes on Wakefield. The resignation of convicted sex criminal Imran Ahmed Khan means a by-election is on the way, and with it all the attendant rune-reading, augury, crystal-ball gazing and punditry. …

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Wakefield — the by-election both sides must win
Wakefield — the by-election both sides must win

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Mar 28, 2022

Kinnock at 80 — an appreciation.

Neil Kinnock is eighty. For the generation which dug deep for the miners, wanted Maggie out, out, out, was revulsed by the scuttling taxis, and wanted to meet the challenge and make the change, this comes as something of a shock. …

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Kinnock at 80 — an appreciation.
Kinnock at 80 — an appreciation.

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Dec 21, 2021

Stand up if you hate Boris: has the PM faced his Ceausescu moment?

If you ask your Bucharest taxi driver nicely, and perhaps offer a few extra Lei, they will take you to Revolution Square and point out the very balcony where Nicolae Ceausescu made his final speech on 21 December 1989. …

Boris Johnson

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Stand up if you hate Boris: has the PM faced his Ceausescu moment?
Stand up if you hate Boris: has the PM faced his Ceausescu moment?
Boris Johnson

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Dec 12, 2021

Two years after Labour’s catastrophe, has Labour made any progress?

On 12 December 2019, just two years ago, the Labour Party was crashing to a catastrophic defeat. The voters let us know what they thought about the previous five years, with a final and crushing verdict. From Bolsover to Bridgend, from Wakefield to Wrexham, Labour voters rejected the party they…

Politics

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Two years on from electoral catastrophe, has Labour made any progress?
Two years on from electoral catastrophe, has Labour made any progress?
Politics

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Sep 25, 2021

Rayner kick-starts conference with a life-raft of practical policy.

Labour’s challenge as delegates gather in Brighton this morning is not the absence of policy. Labour has lots of policies. The problem is that some of them are obscure, some fantastical, some outdated, and some just plain wrong. We can debate which is which later over coffee. The main problem…

Labour Party

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Rayner kick-starts conference with a life-raft of practical policy.
Rayner kick-starts conference with a life-raft of practical policy.
Labour Party

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Sep 20, 2021

Ministers just love messing with the Machinery of Government

Michael Gove, truly the main beneficiary of the recent reshuffle, has stamped his mark on Government with the easiest and most obvious tool to hand: renaming his department. Overnight, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities was conjured from Gove’s fevered imagination. The DLUHC is the latest incarnation of…

Politics

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Ministers just love messing with the Machinery of Government
Ministers just love messing with the Machinery of Government
Politics

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