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January 16, 2015

Christian Aid welcomes Miliband spotlight on global poverty and climate

NGO welcomes Labour leader Ed Miliband’s acknowledgement of 2015 as a crucial year in the battle against acute global poverty and climate change.
March 17, 2014

Pro-Europeans urges to support UK referendum on EU

Green politicians have responded to Labour Party leader Ed Miliband's recent pronouncements on a potential EU referendum.
October 4, 2013

The Chartists, civic vandalism, and destruction of our radical history

This blog post started as a report on the campaign to save Newport’s Chartist mural. But before I finished writing, Newport Council moved in and started destroying this remarkable piece of public art.
June 22, 2013

Labour, austerity and sardines

As a People’s Assembly Against Austerity gathered in London, the Guardian carried a dispiriting interview with UK opposition leader Ed Miliband.
March 7, 2013

Miliband accused of pandering to prejudice with immigration broadcast

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been accused of pandering to UKIP and anti-immigration prejudice with his party political broadcast yesterday.
March 6, 2013

Labour's shift on immigration
December 19, 2012

Cruddas is right on local democracy, wrong on Mill and Aristotle

At the end of a recent speech to the Centre for Social Justice, John Cruddas MP made a rightful appeal for extended local democracy, says political theologian Graeme Smith. But he got there by caricaturing John Stuart Mill, mystifying Aristotle and elevating a confused communitarianism over the proper role of a democratic state in embedding social justice. This warmed-over Blue Labourism needs some serious questioning in terms of its historical understanding and political roots, he suggests.
October 4, 2012

Labour must go further on Trident says CND

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has welcomed Ed Miliband's statement that alternatives to Trident must be considered.
January 21, 2012

Behind the weak rhetoric of 'responsible capitalism'

While David Cameron and Ed Miliband continue to support relentless growth and minor amendments to the economic system, the inequalities inherent in that system will prosper, says Jonathan Bartley. A more thoroughgoing critique and real alternatives are needed.
January 21, 2012

Miliband urged to do more on tackling tax haven secrecy

Christian Aid has welcomed Labour leader Ed Miliband’s determination to tackle the tax havens harming both UK public finances and the world's poor