The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Rupa Huq: The future is not Conservative. It's a Tory-lite version of New Labour – for now, anyway
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Nigerian Labour Congress members at an anti-corruption demonstration during 2008. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos NLC VP hopeful of bright future for Nigerian workers Written by Victor Ahiuma-Young Monday, 06 October 2008 A Vice President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment, Tailoring Workers of...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Jackie Ashley coins the telling phrase ‘Emergency Labour’ to describe the party post-Mandelson’s return. Looking at the reshuffle as a whole one is struck by how little ideological direction there is to it. It does not mark, whatever the headline appearances might suggest, a return to Blairism. Yes, Mandelson is back but at the same time Lord Adonis—the man who was doing more to push forward...
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A quick congratulations to the four members of Compass Youth elected to the executive of London Young Labour the day before yesterday, as well as Compass-backed chair Tom Copley, who will hopefully also be able to reach across to other parts of the party in a similar way to ex-blogger Omar Salem , who comes to the end of his own extremely successful year as chair. Congratulations also to all...
maniacmum (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
We've just had an incredible weekend. Thanks to the offices of a very good friend Spouse and I went away without the children (a treat enough in itself) to Stratford to see Love's Labour's Lost. LLL isn't a play I'm familiar with, and it could easily feel like not going to the main event, namely to see the wonderful Mr Tennant in Hamlet (which fortuitously we're also going to do in December)....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
When the first Labour contingent to the European Parliament – led by Michael Stewart, the former Foreign Secretary – arrived at Zaventem Airport in Brussels in late 1975, there to meet us on the tarmac and bid us a warm welcome was the British Labour Member of the European Commission, George Thomson. He had been our colleague for 20 years in the House of Commons, representing Dundee...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Community Watch of Nigeria , an NGO in Akwa Ibom State, has decried the abuse of the country's labour laws by companies operating at the Qua Iboe oil fields.
The Spine (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
New Labour show their true colours. A Black Country councillor has resigned amid allegations he was in possession of child porn, it emerged today. Walsall Labour councillor Jonathan Phillips stood down after being arrested and bailed by police. The 53-year-old has represented the Birchills and Leamore ward for two years but resigned on Thursday. Police are investigating claims that indecent...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Brendan Barber: The government needs to realise that voters will no longer tolerate a government in thrall to Britain's financial establishment
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The average debt of people attending the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (Mabs) has increased by 50 per cent in the first eight months of this year, Labour TD Roisin Shortall said today.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
It was the unlikeliest of political encounters - Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and Labour's master of spin Peter Mandelson.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Four labour broker firms are planning to challenge the City of Cape Town's decision not to award them contracts, claiming the process was procedurally unfair and that tenders were awarded in a flawed process.
IOL (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Four labour broker firms are planning to challenge the City of Cape Town's decision not to award them contracts.
Islington Newmania (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... elite state schools by post code which helped stop social mobility and entrench poverty under Labour. By means of judicious property acquisition Labour MP`s have ritually used pure financial selection for their own children whilst denying the aspiring poor the chance to benefit from any.. Lack of social cohesion or trust, in Brighton, has in part, caused the lottery allocation pilot...
