Electoral reform should go further, but AV is the right system for the job in hand.

It had taken over a year to get round to watching the BBC’s re-run of the 1979 General Election night. As they say, what goes around comes around.

Labour got everything it could have wanted in Oldham East. It might be atypical but any serious look at the result looks grim for the Liberal Democrats.

Embattled Business Secretary, Vince Cable’s argument about the confidentiality of his constituency surgery is nonsense. The fact is David Cameron should have sacked him over a blatant failure to understand his ministerial role.

The final verdict in cases like that of Phil Woolas should rest with the electorate. I, like many, find the disloyalty of the Labour establishment to one of its most loyal MPs distasteful.

i could prove that print can still do news better than the web – so long as you understand that brievity is a vitue compatible with quality journalism.

Reflections on Labour’s Conference: there is more to why Labour lost than is yet being said clearly and there are some clear steps the Party and its new leader should take now – not least promoting Yvette Cooper.

With a first leader’s speech the point is to avoid the elephant traps, raise the right questions and put down markets. Ed Miliband avoided the mistakes, the right answers will be harder. More importantly he put clear purple water between himself and his former boss.

Labour’s electoral college failed this time – but that’s not Ed Miliband’s fault – it’s a reflection of the weakness of Labour and the failure of the contest to inspire beyond the converted.

The nonesense of a trite and poorly made ‘docurama’ aside, whoever wins later today, the future relationship between the Miliband brothers is make or break stuff for Labour.