That's a phrase with a political history. Is it relevant today? Fraser Nelson notes how the NUT is trying to stop schools becoming academies. We have the NUT undemocratically setting out to sabotage government policy on schools, and Unite seeking judicial review of the proposed reorganisation of the NHS, while Harriet Harman's EHRC seems to think it has the right to call in any governmen...

Has Mark Hoban just become the first victim of the new Labour landmines? He was asked on the Today Programme whether the Treasury had conducted a formal study assessing the impact of the cuts on ethnic minorities. Hoban was speechless - as well you might be. But the assessment, he was told, is required under Harriet Harman's Equalities Act. Has it been carried out? He avoided the question and...

Around the country Labour has been getting great results in council by-elections. The results in votes cast in all the council by-elections in July and in the first weeks of August show us neck and neck with the Tories on 34%. The Lib Dems were on 24%. Our catch-up with the Tories is remarkable in view

Lynne Featherstone is clearly still living in the New Labour era of pointless initiative, writes Melissa Kite.

In a thundering attack this morning, the Mail on Sunday lays into Harriet Harman, acting leader of of the Labour party for…erm… doing nothing wrong at all. Ms Harman, it appears, accepted money legally and properly given by a Labour Party supporter and then, as is one of the jobs of an MP, assisted the

It can be surprisingly easy to excite some journalists. Today is a case in point. Nick Clegg stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions. During his exchanges with Jack Straw (who was standing in for Labour’s Harriet Harman), the Deputy Prime Minister referred to the invasion of Iraq as “illegal”. To most people

Warren Mitchell is unimpressed with all of the Labour Party leadership contenders and thinks acting leader Harriet Harman should carry on in the role.

Acting opposition leader Harriet Harman has accused David Cameron of lacking "the guts to admit" that cancer patients will no longer be guaranteed to see a specialist within two weeks.

Once again, Harriet Harman eluded the predictions of such luminaries as the BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue and alighted on the unexpected subject of cancer waiting times. This strikes me as an excellent subject for Harman to choose. Labour introduced a “guarantee” for cancer patients to see a specialist within two weeks of seeing their GP. Most

David Cameron and Labour leader Harriet Harman clash over the costs of the proposed overhaul of the NHS.