As if Baron Glasman's 'Blue Labour' was not enough to stomach, Luke Bozier has offered up something even more noxious. In an article written for Labour List, Bozier has suggested that the British Labour Party should consider, of all things, adopting the platform of the American 'tea party movement'!?

Bozier concedes that 'the tactics the group and many of its representatives use to achieve their political goals are nothing short of political thuggery', but he nevertheless argues that...

This is a follow on to an earlier entry I wrote on the public sector pensions dispute.

The Telegraph has published exerts from a leaked letter by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, in which he suggests that the proposed reforms are particularly unfair on NHS workers, and that given the obviously unjust nature of the current proposals, 'it is [therefore] difficult to see how a negotiated agreement could be reached with the Trade Unions'. These revelations effectively concede the claims...

This is written as plans for mass strikes on June 30th reach the national news, and as the general secretary of Unison, Dave Prentis, tells Polly Curtis of The Guardian (18th June, 2011) that unless the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government drops its...