Monthly Archives · January 2012

Columnist, campaigner, author, atheist, “queen of leftist journalists” Polly Toynbee, photographed at this year’s Fabian January Conference. Very friendly, very impressive and very cool.

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Irksome when you meet someone younger than you, rousing a crowded room to cheers and whoops, but there we are. Owen Jones, author of ‘Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class’, writer and regular left-wing arguer on TV & Radio. Dead nice guy.

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Leader of the Green Party, MP for Brighton Pavilion. Campaigner for alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, animal welfare and green economics. And thoroughly nice person; Caroline Lucas.

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Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, tipped to be the first female leader of the Labour party, Rachel Reeves.

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The Editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley. Formerly the Editor of Granta and the Observer Sport Monthly. Not bad. And a thoroughly nice chap to boot.

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The Editor of Fabiana, the magazine of the Fabian Women’s Network, feminist and Labour party activist – Ivana Bartoletti.

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Socialist, feminist, environmentalist, blogger Emma Burnell (Scarlet Standard). You could do a lot worse than follow her on twitter @ScarletStand . Imagine Guido Fawkes if he was nice.

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