NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
"Old Labour was hostile to the market; New Labour has arguably been too deferential to it. The modern, progressive position has the confidence to assert the social over the economic. It argues that there is more to decision making than competition law: that the market needs to be shaped around the needs of society, not vice versa. This need to govern the market in the interests of society is something...
Tim McLoughlin (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Writing in the latest Progress magazine, David Lammy admits the obvious, that the Tories' language under Cameron has wooed the public. There is nothing startling about that to anyone who has lived in the UK for the last year. There is if you are The Daily Mail. The Mail has triumphantly dubbed Lammy's article " Labour minister publicly admits David Cameron has 'touched a nerve " like it is a revelation...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
David Cameron has “touched a nerve” with the British people as the Tories exploit a “big gap” in Labour’s performance after 11 years in power, a government minister has warned. In a candid assessment of Labour’s prospects, as Gordon Brown prepares to return to the political fray next week, skills minister David Lammy calls on the [...]
English Blog (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
The youth population in Britain is living with a different ideology, according to David Lammy, the skills minister. I read a report by the Guardian just a few minutes ago: Young men are shunning work and turning to a life of crime as Britain develops a “get rich or die trying” culture, the country’s most [...]
TMP (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Skills Minister, MP for Tottenham and Britain’s most senior elected ethnic minority politician, David Lammy, has written an article for the New Statesman in which he argues we are failing miserably to provide Britain’s teenage boys with meaningful occupations, worthy role models or hope for the future. Lammy, pictured above last month with US Democratic Presidential nominee, Sen. [...]
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
David Lammy, a universities minister is saying that “An entire generation of young men, including those from middle-class families is growing up shunning work and seeing crime as a shortcut to wealth and success”. So while the sons and daughters of Thatcher work all hours God sends, the jack layabouts bred by Zanu-Labour get sucked into crime. Not the only reason I know, but the cloying hand of the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
A lack of male role models and glorification of "bling culture" has caused a crisis among boys in Britain, according to a government minister.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
We are failing miserably to provide Britain's teenage boys with meaningful occupations, worthy role models or hope for the future. David Lammy, minister for skills, on the crisis we must resolve I had not wept in an advice surgery until a few weeks ago, when a distraught mother and father came to see me after learning that their teenage daughter had been subjected to the most brutal assault I have...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Skills minister David Lammy, most senior black MP, says Britain is developing a 'get rich or die trying' culture
The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
And can we claim another scalp for this blog (along with Chris Batt, Mark Wood, David Lammy, Andrew McIntosh,regional MLA's, John Dolan, Andrew Stevens, Better Stock Better Libraries, Impact Measures, Blueprint for the future, etc etc) ? I can't see anything from them since the New Year. Are councils still paying their fees? (by mistake)
Times Online - Matthew Parris (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Recording (for broadcast next Tuesday) a programme in my Great Lives series for BBC radio, my guest was David Lammy. Mr Lammy, who is black, is a government minister. He had chosen the American stand-up, Richard Pryor, who also was black. Lammy and I spent a lively half-hour discussing Pryor's (in some ways) troubled life, and listening to a few clips of brilliant comedy from an entertainer of whom...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
This is the first in a series of posts titled 'Only (insert name of young turk here) can save the Labour Party.' Coming soon: David Miliband, David Lammy, Kitty Usher, Luke Akehurst...
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
David Lammy MP has a good bit up here which I find it hard to disagree with. For me, the Obama campaign shows fabulously the kind of approach labour should have gone towards halfway through its second term. I've been a long advocate of activist centred mass-ism, deppressing though both the state of the party and its array of factions happens to be. So it embodies an ideal. The real question is, which...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
David Lammy MP’s recent call for the introduction of open primaries for candidate selection into British politics got a bit lost on LC, because - quite understandably, not a few people preferred to play the man rather than the ball; - the Single Tranferable Vote fetishists feared that our broken electoral system might be fixable in some other way [...]
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics David Lammy, the Minister for Skills, seems rarely to miss an opportunity to mention his friendship with fellow Harvard graduate, Barack Obama, whom he first met in 2004. "We've stayed in touch, have met on a number of occasions, and speak on the phone when we get the chance," he boasted in a recent House Magazine interview. So are they going to meet for a chinw...
