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The Guardian reports today that David Miliband, pipped to the Labour leader's post by his younger brother Ed earlier this year, is being considered for the position of the UK's ambassador to America. There is no doubting David Miliband's capabilities. He has extensive foreign policy and international relations experience. That said, the key US-UK dynamic is in play here. Consider the inevitable d...
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With each passing day, Ed Miliband, Labour leader, shows a clear vision. His actions and speeches remain consistent. He has appointed his shadow cabinet today, allocating portfolios among those MPs who were elected to be part of this shadow cabinet, by their peers. His selection has been called surprising , because Yvette Cooper was widely tipped to be Shadow Chancellor, but has been made Shadow...
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The soul of the people is rarely up on display openly. You typically don't see it strung up in bold letters, hung from tall buildings, lit up bright. It's in the little, unconscious things. Let slip. Glimpsed from the corner of the eye. The British feel besieged by climate change and by immigrants. You can dismiss to 10 by 10 campaign, Monbiot , and the occasional rally on Trafalgar Square. You c...
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In her address to the Labour party, while closing its annual Conference, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman noted a critical point. Labour maintains a laser focus on the future . This entire theme of departure from New Labour and from the Left, is not so much about rejecting, but about looking ahead. New Labour in particular, promised everything to everyone. How could it fail to attract? The Left is co...
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The coalition looks likely not to last the full 5 years. Labour looks set to perform well in the next elections. The latest YouGov poll puts it at 40%, as opposed to the Tory 39% and the Lib Dem 12%. Ed Miliband, who won the Labour leadership election, has talked about moving beyond boom and bust. David Miliband, his elder brother, who also ran but lost, has talked about ruling out factions. Ther...
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CNN World Report just talked about the contest for Labour leadership between David Miliband and Ed Miliband, speculating on the family angle and the sibling rivalry angle. As a Labour party member, I thought long and hard about whom I would choose for my second preference. My first was set on Diane Abbott, my last on Ed Balls, both for feminist reasons. I finally settled on David Miliband for sec...
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The Guardian today has John Harris summing up Tony Blair's latest admonishment -- If Labour walks away from New Labour, it only walks into irrelevance. This admonishment shows how out of touch Tony Blair actually is. The recession of 2008 finished New Labour. Rightly or wrongly, it was Labour's lurch to the right that remains etched in people's minds as causing the conditions that led in particul...
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