- Mail on Sunday in smear attempt on John O’Farrell – Jon Lansman shows how the Mail distorted extracts from a comic account of “eighteen miserable years in the life of a Labour supporter” under Thatcher and Major
- Ed’s speech and the elephant in the audience – The good bits, the pleasing noises and the continuing silence of Britain’s “debt problem”.
- Translated today. Or maybe yesterday; I don’t know – Jack Dunleavy looks at a new translation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider.
- Eight reasons why things can only get better in Eastleigh – Jon Lansman justifies making the Eastleigh by-election a major priority for Labour.
- Lessons on Ecuador’s progressive alternatives to neo-liberal crisis – Lee Brown outlines the issues at stake in this weekend’s election.
- The compulsive radio of a fascinating, worrying interview– Keir McCormack considers what made controversialist columnist Julie Birchill’s Desert Island Discs such compulsive listening.
