James Valentine is a constituency representative on Labour’s National Policy Forum and a member of the Britain in the World Policy Commission. He was a candidate for the Eastern Region in the 2009 European Elections and a parliamentary candidate for Mid Bedfordshire in 2001.
Posted on Jul 19, 2009 at 10:43am
By James Valentine A first major test for the coalition arrives on September 9th in terms of the council by-elections in Norwich. Based on my experience, there are some encouraging...
By James Valentine Yet again the Tories’ cuts agenda seems to have an ulterior motive. The weekend story that the FCO Annual Report on Human Rights is to be axed...
By James Valentine David Willetts and Vince Cable are in hot water. They’ve been castigated by the Daily Mail for promoting a swap scheme for overseas students by which high-paying...
By James Valentine Political commentators and activists are preoccupied with the question of how long the coalition will last. Labour has been encouraged by an influx of new members, at...
By James Valentine Today’s budget, based on a false scare story that we’re about to have a sovereign debt crisis, is essentially ideological. This way the Tories (let’s drop the...
By James Valentine Capitalism is again in crisis as the sovereign debt panic extends from Greece to other southern European countries, and possibly more widely. It seems unlikely that this...
By James Valentine David Miliband claimed in his speech on Saturday that he had helped to initiate Labour’s Building Schools for the Future programme and, interestingly, the most applause in...
By James Valentine I welcomed Gordon Brown’s statement yesterday – it was an acceptance of the inevitable and brilliantly timed. It ensures that, subject to a Lib-Lab pact, he will...
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