As many of you will kmow, every year I organise a dinner for London delegates at Labour Party Conference. This year it was the biggest ever and very enjoyable, as you can see from the photos. I certainly had a good time eating Chinese and drinking white wine and I hope everyone else did too. Sitting round [...]
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It’s time, I think, for some reflections on Labour Party Conference other than talking about my fringe meeting Blogging for Labour. As I’m now back in Brussels wrestling with the harrowing and appalling subject of child pornography on the internet as well and judging a European journalism prize, now seemed as good as any to [...]
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Some first quick thoughts on tonight’s “Blogging for Labour” fringe meeting. I was delighted almost 100 people attended even without the prospect of a free meal! Many thanks to all the panel members. John Gray for giving an insight into the perils of libel actions and the need for more guidance on legal issues. Jessica [...]
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It’s been quite a morning at Labour Party Conference. Although the talk of the town has been David Miliband’s gracious and heartfelt speech as Shadow Foreign Secretary, my interest also lay with EPLP Leader Glenis Willmott. Speaking to conference delegates, Glenis pointed to the work being done by Labour’s team in the European Parliament: “Day [...]
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Another change, Alex Smith who has played such an important role in Ed Miliband’s Leadership election campaign has had to pull out of today’s fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference – Blogging for Labour – How Social Media can drive a wedge into the Coalition at Manchester Central – Charter 1, at 6pm. Alex kindly arranged [...]
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Tom Harris MP has had to pull out of my fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference – Blogging for Labour – How social media can drive a wedge into the Coalition at Manchester Central – Charter 1, at 6pm. Tom is a real star. He has arranged for Kerry McCarthy MP to take his place. [...]
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So it’s Ed M by less than a whisker – 1.3% to be precise. However, as Polly Toynbee has just said on the Andrew Marr show, this was no Denis Healey/Tony Benn election. There quite simply was no big political difference between Miliband E and Miliband D. Given this, I truly believe there will no [...]
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As I am about to head off for Labour Party Conference, I came across this excellent research produced by the TUC on the effect of the coalition government’s cuts in public spending. Significantly, the research shows that the combined impact of all fiscal consolidation measures, both cuts to spending on public services and tax and benefit [...]
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The next featured speaker at my fringe meeting is UNISON activist and London Borough of Newham Councillor John Gray. John’s Labour Blog was ranked second on the TIGMOO (an organisation which ranks trade union blogs) list, the top slot going to the TUC. John, along with fellow blogger former PPC Alex Hilton, recently won an [...]
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