By Ben Chu

Harriet Harman's abiding commitment to gender equality over the years has been laudable, but I think she made a mistake in her interview with Woman's Hour today. Attacking the rumours that she is preparing a leadership bid she says: "They won't take no for an answer and when a woman says 'no', she means 'no'."

The problem here is not her denial, but her appropriation of the well-known anti-rape slogan.

By Ben Chu

If David Miliband's Guardian article is his pitch for the leadership, it seems clear that any future administration (or, more likely, opposition) led by him will place a greater emphasis on the environment. Indeed, his penultimate paragraph identifies green issues as one of the prime Tory-Labour political battlegrounds: "If people and business are to take responsibility, you need government to act as a catalyst. High polluting products will not disappear unless government regulates. New nuclear power stations need planning policy to facilitate them. And if we act through the EU, we green the largest single market in the world. In opposition, you can sound green while embracing Euroscepticism." Gordon Brown has never been a conviction politician when it comes to climate change. Miliband, who spent a year as Environment Secretary, seems much more serious about the green agenda.