The runners for the next President of the PES
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has today announced he is standing down as President of the PES. Over a period that has been one of relative decline for the left across Europe,…
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David Miliband and the 50p falafel
Summer is silly season in politics, and I’m doing my best to prove this blog isn’t immune to that, with the second odd David Miliband story in two days. Yesterday’s…
Danish MP proposes new role for David Miliband – special envoy to Syria
This is a bit of an odd one, but the source is an interesting (and controversial) Danish politician – Naser Khader. Khader has represented three different parties in the Danish…
Miliband explains all the problems of the European left – now time for solutions
David Miliband set out his concerns about the predicament of the European left in a speech at LSE this evening. The full text of his speech is available at Labourlist…
Some thoughts on the Diane Abbott – David Miliband leadership result
Political Betting has raised the issue of whether David Miliband’s decision to get Diane Abbott onto the ballot paper in the end costed him the leadership. The line is that…
I, or Ed or David, in the Labour leadership election
No-one visiting a politician’s website realistically expects the site to be entirely written by the actual individual. But how should a site be written and designed on a candidate’s behalf?…
Where we could have been this evening – Lamy/Freiberga/Miliband
I try to see the positives where I can, but I am really struggling this evening. Who actually wanted Barroso, Van Rompuy and Ashton to be running the European Union?…
In the postmodern putsch you have to move the victim somewhere – so where for Brown?
If you don’t like a politician what do you do with him or her? International organisations are always an option. Could this work for Labour and Gordon Brown? Let me…
