The clock struck ten and the red wall crumbled, and in came the blue tide. Labour are staring into the abyss, if not already plummeting in it. This was a demis...
Tony Blair consistently draws a distinction between the ‘politics of protest’ and the ‘politics of governance’. His politics mean he’s the ‘guy on the placard’...
Our newly elected prime minister Boris Johnson is infamous for finding it difficult to tell the truth. The general election campaign was littered with untruths...
The fact that
Labour has just suffered its worst general election result since 1935 is being
widely quoted.
It’s meant to be
mark of how bad things are for...
This article presents a critique of Blue Labour in four key areas – class, economy, family and race. It sets out alternative ways forward to forge rather than ...
The suburban areas that were initially stereotyped in the late
nineteenth century as ‘Villa Tory’ strongholds and exemplified by Hackney and
Islington were pla...
The 2017 snap general
election was, for many people, a remarkable result for Labour given the
pervading conventional wisdom that the Labour party could not do ...
Gordon Brown’s autobiography is soberly written. It contains no startling new revelations, and is notably forbearing to his rivals and critics, including Tony ...
The twentieth anniversary of Labour’s 1997 election victory passed without much comment last year – among other reasons, the hectic pace of political developmen...
We asked a selection of authors to respond to ‘The New Politics of Class’ by Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley
Writing in mid-2017, it is very hard for anyone to...
David Marquand’s influential work of the early 1990s, The Progressive Dilemma, was a landmark volume: Marquand’s book addressed the most profound, long-term cha...
When the Conservative Party is strong and the Labour Party is weak, leading ornaments of the British left often turn their minds to the creation of a broader, m...
