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Westminster digested
It's the Labour party conference and the faithful have got issues with Ed Miliband's speechMilidee: It's been a year ...Labour conference: … since we should have chosen Milidum.Milidee: ... and in that...
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Labour bring back The Red Flag, melodious and neutered
Soprano leads the delegates in rendition of socialist anthem, but annual party conference ends with a traditional whimperThe great anticlimax that is the end of the Labour party conference came as a...
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A long haul ahead for Ed
The Guardian Northerner's political columnist Ed Jacobs reports on Labour in Liverpool, and reaction elsewhere in the northThere was a somewhat surreal atmosphere at Labour's annual get together in...
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Welfare state good for entrepreneurship and economic growth, say experts
Business leaders call for end to stigma over failure saying benefits don't hinder but support and stimulate enterpriseThe UK needs to shed the stigma attached to entrepreneurs who rely on benefits...
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Dinner at Downton Abbey has livelier debates than party conferences today |...
If the money that pays for party conferences went to our examination of banks, we might have a better idea of our fate – and struggle against itFor all its crimes and misdemeanours, the British media...
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Hands off our big society | Jesse Norman
Ed Miliband seeks to contest the ground these new ideas occupy. We must not give him free rein'Half-baked", "bereft of ideas", "doesn't have the X factor", "the single worst political speech I've heard...
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Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight over the last seven daysThe storyMonkey doWhat's more idiotic than presenting a horde of monkeys with a keyboard and expecting them to...
View ArticlePhotographing the party conference season slideshow Martin Argles - audio...
Guardian photographer Martin Argles talks about the challenges and perspectives of photographing the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative conferencesMartin ArglesPhil MaynardRanjit Dhaliwal
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Breezy optimism in the political bubble. Fear and loathing on Britain's...
Outside the party conference halls the disconnect between politicians and the public has never been greaterWith an almost absurdly bravura performance from the prime minister, conference season on...
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David Cameron's no Obama, but then he is British | Simon Lancaster
Yes we can make decent conference speeches, it's just that cynicism and self-loathing are the glue that holds Britain togetherAt a conference last year I asked a professor of rhetoric if Obama's "Yes...
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These demeaning rituals are a waste political parties can ill afford | Martin...
The conference season – dominated by lobbyists and media and devoid of any debate – has long outlived its purposeOn the shelves by my desk as I write stands a volume called Conservative and Labour...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Should party conferences be abolished?
Party members are staying away, lobbyists are taking over and with costs to attend rising we ask: are party conferences a luxury British politics can do without?The three party conferences took place...
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The conference season felt like three weeks in Lilliput | Andrew Rawnsley
At all of the party gatherings none of the politicians could find the words to match the scale of the challengesAttending one of the late-night drinks receptions at the Tory party conference – it's...
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Labour conference 'wrong to boo Tony Blair', says Harman
Deputy leader admonishes 'tiny' section of conference, and says a woman will always hold one of the party's top two jobsThe section of the Labour conference that booed Tony Blair were wrong, Labour...
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Letters: Fun, fizz and frolics at the fringe
Martin Kettle is correct in his analysis of Labour party conferences as "public relations presentations", but wrong in his prescription (These demeaning rituals are a waste political parties can ill...
View ArticleMiliband's working relationship with unions? Avoid conflict
Labour leader and unions may find striking a thorny issue, but their relationship has found some level of accordMidway through the Labour conference, a reporter tweeted an exchange with Ed Miliband:...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Ed Miliband's big idea for Labour
Labour's Ed Miliband says Britain is in the midst of a 'quiet crisis'. Our commentators Julian Glover, Anne Perkins and Toby Helm assess the solutions he offered at his party's conference in Liverpool...
View ArticleHarriet Harman: this week has been a turning point for Labour
Deputy leader says party has apologised for mistakes made during 13 years in government and it is 'time to move on'The deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, has told activists the party had witnessed...
View ArticleLetters: Ed and his plans for a new direction
This Wednesday was the first day for years that I have read a paper without feeling deeply depressed. Ed Miliband has offered a future of a just and moral society that gives hope for our current...
View ArticleEd has offered an alternative – but will anyone vote for it? | Martin Kettle
Miliband's indisputable leftward shift has put Labour at ease with itself but risks making the party less relevant than everMany years ago, I was walking down a street in London with a rising Labour...
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