Paul Mason
Jeremy Corbyn’s victory and the new party he leads
It’s the size that matters. What political scientists knew, but the media didn’t bother knowing, is that the Labour Party’s membership changed under Ed Miliband.
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Gary Gibbon
If Jeremy Corbyn is crowned, the hard work starts here
The Left breaking out of the tomb, over-turning what it sees as a political elite entwined with big business… the vest-wearers overthrowing the vested interests.
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FactCheck: What will Labour’s next leader do to the economy?
Which Labour leadership candidate would print money? Who wants to build 2 million houses? Who thinks George Osborne might be right about running a surplus?
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Cathy Newman
Is Andy Burnham really the best bet to see off Jeremy Corbyn?
Lord Falconer thinks Andy Burnham has the best chance of seeing off Jeremy Corbyn’s challenge to be Labour leader. But Burnham’s pitch to voters is no clearer than his female rivals’.
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FactCheck: Cooper’s claims on domestic violence cases
Yvette Cooper has attacked the government’s record on domestic violence – claiming that it is “failing badly”. Is she being fair to the boys in blue?
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FactCheck: Is Labour picking up women voters from the Tories?
To hear Labour speak, you’d think there was a veritable stampede of women desperate to escape the clutches of David Cameron in exchange for the warm embrace of Ed Miliband. But are they right? FactCheck speaks to pollsters and asks Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts what women really want.
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FactCheck: Cooper caught out on crime
FactCheck is a bit mystified. Labour’s press office pinged out a preview of Yvette Cooper’s speech this morning, which obviously we leapt on with our fine toothed factchecking comb. And something caught our eye. The release, published on Politics Home, announced that Yvette Cooper would say at Conference today that Labour was “the first government in a hundred years where crime went down and not up”.
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FactCheck: Cooper cuts a thin blue line
The claim “Yvette Cooper should know that Alan Johnson refused to guarantee police numbers, and (Ed) Balls admitted he would cut force budgets by over £1bn a year” Policing Minister Nick Herbert MP, Radio 4’s World this Weekend
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Gary Gibbon
It was Mandelson who Balls it up for Ed
New rumour is that Gordon Brown didn’t actually decide to keep Alistair Darling in place until this morning and that an early morning conversation with Peter Mandelson swung it. That won’t do much for Mandelson/Balls relations, which had been patched up since Lord Mandelson’s return to government. Ed Balls will be feeling frustrated that his…