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One of the major questions thrown up during Refounding Labour was how do political parties retain a sense of relevance to diverse communities in the modern world. With traditional voter allegiances less secure and class based voting on the…
By Brian Duggan Across Brussels and in its member states, rarely is there debate on the EU, its institutions and their popularity (or lack of) without the word crisis entering the conversation. Putting aside, for a moment, the various…
By Brian Duggan Today, voters in Sweden go to the polls. They will be testing a one term Conservative-Liberal coalition and the opposition Social Democrats will be hoping to bounce back to power after one term out of office. There is…
By Brian Duggan It's a truism to say that winning political parties are always the ones that best convince voters that they understand their lives and their needs. It follows though that the political parties that lose elections are often…
By Brian Duggan / @TheBrianDuggan As we move closer to election day and the polls begin to tighten one thing is increasingly clear. There is no substitute for good policy thinking. You can spend money on billboards, pollsters, glossy…
By Brian Duggan The recent edition of Young Fabians magazine Anticipations contains an article from Catherine Stihler, one of the Labour MEPs for Scotland. Catherine argues that Britain must collaborate with EU states both to forge a stable…
By Brian Duggan In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell wrote that without the empire Britain would be, "...a cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly on herrings and potatoes." While…
