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Rowenna Davis

Rowenna Davis is a journalist from London specialising in comment and features on political and social affairs for the Guardian. She has also written for the New Statesman, the Independent, the New Internationalist and the Times. She is a self-confessed feminist, liberal, lefty, economist and environmentalist who wishes she could support Labour more.

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Posted on Mar 06, 2009 at 11:42am

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Mr Cameron, your speech was hypocritical, hollow and dangerous

6:00 pm, Thu 8th Oct 2009
By Rowenna Davis Mr Cameron, you started your speech today saying you were a rather "uncomplicated" man. Your personal simplicity is perhaps the one part of your speech that I...
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Gordon's getting a bit anti-social

6:13 pm, Tue 29th Sep 2009
By Rowenna Davis Nice speech Gordon. But why do you want to ruin such a progressive set of policies with an outdated return to the antisocial behaviour agenda? The PM's...
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Denham: we may need to change the welfare system to adapt to people's sense of fairness

8:34 am, Mon 28th Sep 2009
By Rowenna Davis Do the Brits hate benefits? Well not really, but they do kind of hate the people on them. This was the main finding behind a key Fabian...
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Are Labour losing women's votes on public services?

11:14 pm, Mon 14th Sep 2009
Are Labour losing women's votes on public services? By Rowenna Davis Gordon Brown has been criticised for not taking women seriously in the past, but a new poll suggests that he might want to pay them a bit...
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Harriet Harman- we salute you!

2:29 pm, Mon 7th Sep 2009
Harriet Harman- we salute you! By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis I’m no party demagogue, but Harriet Harman, I salute you today. Few know it, but today’s exposure of an 80% gender pay gap in the...
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Our political female role models: disillusioned, demonised and out of office

12:03 pm, Sun 7th Jun 2009
Our political female role models: disillusioned, demonised and out of office By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis I’m past caring what the last week has done to Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. But I’m terrified about what it’s done to women...
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Where the MPs' expenses would have been better spent

1:20 pm, Fri 22nd May 2009
Where the MPs' expenses would have been better spent By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis As the moats, horse manure, chandeliers and duck houses have come pouring out of the Westminster expenses bag over the last fortnight, I have been...
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Progressive blogging statement

5:11 pm, Mon 20th Apr 2009
By Rowenna Davis / @Rowenna_Davis At last, something positive may be coming out of “Smeargate”. A coalition of Labour Party members and supporters have put the internal bitching and blaming...
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Derek, the LabourSisters are done with you...for now!

6:36 pm, Tue 10th Mar 2009
Derek, the LabourSisters are done with you...for now! By Rowenna Davis Alas it is time to take Derek Draper out of the cupboard, remove the gaffer tape and reinstate him as editor of LabourList. As I sign off...
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Feminism is not a dirty word - LabourList poll results

5:21 pm, Tue 10th Mar 2009
Feminism is not a dirty word - LabourList poll results By Rowenna Davis The so-called Labour bloke-o-sphere that I have been criticising for the last few days has just proved me wrong by voting for feminism. Over half of the...
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