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This piece is probably going to please precisely no one. These thoughts are not based on any knowledge of how the campaigns are being run and what their strategies are - because I don't know. Nor is it based on my own preferences because I…
We have at least a 50% chance that the next leader of the Labour party is going to be a woman. We have a 60% chance that our deputy will once again be a woman. That's maths. (My ancestry, however would not forgive me if I didn't point out…
"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing." How often have we all heard this from Harold Wilson? I used to love this quote. It was comforting in the surety it displayed about our Party and it's place in the world. I know I have…
The second unofficial Labour Leadership hustings event took place today with all five candidates (Jeremy Corbyn MP was a last minute addition after his late announcement) speaking on a panel at the Fabian Society summer conference. They…
The ghosts of Leaders past stalked the halls of the Fabian Conference this morning, Amid much discussion of why Labour lost, why we failed to convince and why we found ourselves not just not winning but falling disastrously backwards we…
Labour are often accused of being the most tribal of the mainstream political parties. For my money, I don't think this is true. It was a consistent internal tribal loyalty that allowed the Lib Dems to drive themselves off a cliff for…
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party and the country we seek to represent and to lead. His argument about the breakdown of left/right political…
This is going to sound like a weird thing to say but bear with me: There's too much politics in our leadership contest. I don't mean the rather unedifying way that supporters of one candidate or another are slagging off the others. I mean…
"As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread. Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew. Yes, it is bread we fight for -- but we fight for roses, too!" Bread…
There are five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Just a week ago, we were expected as a party to go through them all immediately and be psychologically ready to move on. Move on with the news cycle…
We have become a party that looks and thinks too much like me and too little like the country. We have become a party of the liberal metropolitan elite that the country blames and despises for its woes. It is not wholly wrong. We tried to…
The Sun have made no secret of their support for the Tory party in this election (except of course when they are supporting the SNP in Scotland). Given this, it seems fair to assume that this would be an accurate reflection of the passions…
