My wife and child have been on holiday this week which gave me six nights to rediscover life as a bachelor in London. I was determined to make something of the opportunity. Not just because they were on holiday, because I was back from our holiday, or because I’d come back to do a piece [...]

Luke Akehurst, Hackney councillor, blogger, Dad, Stoke Newington resident and legendary right-wing Lib Dem hater, that Luke Akehurst, is standing for Labour’s NEC. I can think of no better candidate.

There are four main reasons that I’m voting for Luke Akehurst, and I hope I can persuade you to do the same.

I don’t support Gordon Brown. His leadership of the party has been vicious and nasty and his leadership of the country has been inept and hopeless. I always thought it would be bad but I never believed that he would be quite so bereft of ideas for what he wanted to do with the job. [...]

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