The next election is in Ed Miliband’s hands
So UKIP are ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the latest YouGov poll. It was only a matter…
Anthony Painter
We don’t do politics
On Saturday, there was a #labourdoorstep tweet which said that there had been a ‘mixed reaction’ in the…
The Tories have taken a political risk – but they may be forgiven
Nobody really knows what the real impact of the 50p tax rate is. It has behaviour impacts –…
The left’s new divides
2011 was dominated by a false unity for the left. Labour behaved as if it were still in…
Are all prejudices the same?
On Saturday, I chaired a sparky question time style debate at the Fabian conference 2012 (which, incidentally, was…
What is our answer to the English question?
The stunning success of the Military Wives choir is a wonderful and quintessentially English story. Their story is…
A New Year
Before Christmas, I wrote about Labour’s ‘pretty bad year’. It argued that society has changed,the party had failed to…
A pretty bad year
Things are not all fine on the good ship Labour. For all the soothing words, the reassuring mood…
Where have the euro-realists gone?
Pro-europeanism was not defeated on Friday. It was defeated long ago. No, it was euro-realism that lost on…
In defence of the inner city
A few days ago Graeme Archer sat outside the Michelin recommended gastro-pub on the top of the trendy…
