All credit to Harriet Harman for using her position to advance the cause of gender balance significantly within the party and who now proposes a gender-balanced leadership which has been taken up by Peter Hain’s Refounding Labour to win. The solution proposed is electing Labour’s leader and deputy on a joint ticket with a deputy (of […]
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About those “peaceful” suffragettes
Mar 29th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Firstly, a defence of Ed Miliband. He has been savaged from both left and right for speaking at the TUC’s historic demonstration against the cuts on Saturday. Some activists booed him as he spoke, angered by any association between Labour and the anti-cuts movement. The criticisms from the right, meanwhile, have been largely predictable: in […]
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Home truths on International Women’s Day
Mar 8th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.(Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, with Daniel Craig and the voice of Judi Dench)
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The trouble with all-women shortlists
Feb 16th, 2011 by Owen Jones.The lack of women represented in the House of Commons is nothing less than a national disgrace. We’re over 80 years on from winning universal suffrage, but only one in five Members of Parliament don’t have a Y chromosome. There are 56 countries on earth with more women represented in their legislatures, including well-known citadels of […]
