Archived entries for Fab 5

Fab 5: Friday 22 January 2010

Your final Fab 5 of the week. Enjoy.

  • Alistair Campbell writes about a life in unemployment statistics.
  • Hopi Sen ponders bad projections.
  • Comment is Free reproduces part of a speech US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave this week on Freedom and the Internet.
  • Ed Miliband responds to Alex Smith of Labourlist who recently put a number of new ideas compiled from submissions by Labourlist readers to him.
  • And Political Betting asks whether the Conservatives are getting too much media coverage of late.

    • Fab 5: Thursday 21 January 2010

    Five articles and posts we recommend for you today:

  • Labour List inform us that Labour is developing an iPhone app for launch ahead of the next General Election.
  • Michael White, writing in the Guardian, takes issue with Conservative claims that Labour are “renewing class warfare”, pointing out the Harriet Harman, amongst others, have always been fighting to reduce inequality.
  • Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, writes a guest post for Left Foot Forward arguing the government needs to provide the resources to back up its stated Higher Education policy.
  • Finally, the issue of bank bonuses continues to attract headlines. Tonight, Barack Obama has announced new reforms to banking in the US – Robert Peston suggests this amounts to “breaking them up“. Elsewhere, Theo Blackwell, writing in Progress, believes London Mayor Boris Johnson’s blind support for the Square Mile will backfire.

    • Fab 5: Wednesday 20 January 2010

    Five posts or articles for you to read today:

  • Denis McShane, in The Independent, on how history is being rewritten at the Chilcot Enquiry.
  • In Economics, Chris Dillow asks whether inflation is actually rising, following yesterday’s publication of CPI figures. Meanwhile, the BBC’s Stephanie Flanders dissects the latest unemployment figures.
  • Jon Craig writes about George Osborne’s expenses on the Sky News Boulton & Co. blog.
  • And finally, a year into Obama’s Presidency, Michael Tomasky believes the Democrats should have hope despite the setback in last night’s Senate election race in Massachusetts.

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