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Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala is General Secretary of the Fabian Society. He was previously a leader writer and internet editor at The Observer, research director for the Foreign Policy Centre think-tank, and Commissioning Editor for Politics and Economics for the publisher Macmillan. Sunder blogs primarily at Next Left, but also at Comment is Free and Liberal Conspiracy.

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 at 03:26pm

Sunder Katwala's latest posts

The beleaguered Hague: did he lie or mislead?

9:18 am, Fri 19th Mar 2010
The beleaguered Hague: did he lie or mislead? By Sunder Katwala / @NextLeft We have reached the point in the clumsy and damaging Ashcroft cover-up where the Shadow Foreign Secretary may as well now change his name by...
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Support the right for religious groups to hold civil partnerships

9:44 am, Fri 26th Feb 2010
Support the right for religious groups to hold civil partnerships By Sunder Katwala / @NextLeft The House of Lords is to consider an amendment to the Equality Bill on March 2nd next week, which would make it legal for civil...
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Memo to Pickles: the answer to the Tory dilemma in Barking

6:38 pm, Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Memo to Pickles: the answer to the Tory dilemma in Barking By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Paul Waugh has the very interesting scoop that the Tories appear to have taken seriously the idea of dropping out of the general election in...
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How to get a leadership election right: wait until you're ready

12:44 am, Fri 22nd Jan 2010
How to get a leadership election right: wait until you're ready By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Politicians are told not to answer hypothetical questions. But perhaps think-tankers and bloggers sometimes can. So let me introduce you to Katwala's first law of...
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Purnell goes beyond the limits of New Labour

9:06 am, Mon 11th Jan 2010
Purnell goes beyond the limits of New Labour By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft James Purnell has an interesting column in The Guardian, which the paper reports here. The piece is mostly about ideas. But first the inside baseball....
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Why this plot will fail

2:45 pm, Wed 6th Jan 2010
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft It still seems likely that the moment of maximum danger for Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party into the General Election was the evening...
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Introducing the Steve Hilton Award for Progressive Gobledegook

9:34 pm, Sun 3rd Jan 2010
Introducing the Steve Hilton Award for Progressive Gobledegook By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft "The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his...
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Tory options on VAT: lessons from history

10:07 am, Mon 14th Dec 2009
Tory options on VAT: lessons from history By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft ConservativeHome are asking how the Conservatives should address Labour's claim that they plan to put up VAT. As Guido Fawkes summarises: "[Tim Montgomerie] makes five...
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Miliband v Miliband

3:09 pm, Wed 25th Nov 2009
Miliband v Miliband By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Is the wrong Milibandwagon now rolling fast? That is Jenni Russell's concern in her Guardian column, making the case for her friend Ed over his...
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David Miliband: Can't yet tell whether Cameron EU policy is meaningless or dangerous

6:42 pm, Sat 7th Nov 2009
David Miliband: Can't yet tell whether Cameron EU policy is meaningless or dangerous By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft There are two possible criticisms which pro-European political opponents might make of David Cameron's new European Union policy - one that it is meaningless; the...
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