- On Jimmy Savile, Tony Blair, and turning a blind eye to serious crimes: (for the second week running) Blair and Savile had one thing in common says Jon Lansman: people in high places turned a blind eye to their different but serious crimes.
- The boos won’t help, but Ed is wrong, wrong, wrong on austerity: austerity with “different but fairer choices” is not the answer and to understand why, it is only necessary to revisit Ed Balls’s Bloomberg speech, says Jon Lansman.
- Let’s make Young Labour accountable: with no accountability and no sense of what they’re up to, it’s time for some more democracy argues Conrad Landin.
- BBC-bashing: fashionable, but at our peril: it is entirely proper that bosses at the BBC are being carpeted for not doing the right thing over Savile, says Lucy Reese, but be careful what you wish for.
- Keith Vaz’s place on Labour’s national executive challenged: it is alleged that Vaz hasn’t paid his dues and isn’t eligible to be there, reports Jon Lansman.
- The practicality of a general strike: Building a political alliance against austerity is a more urgent task for the unions than industrial action for which the preconditions have not yet been established, argues Andy Newman.
