What’s so moral about a crusade?
“This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.” How often have we all heard this from…
Emma Burnell
Labour leadership candidates face off over education, Europe and Scotland
The second unofficial Labour Leadership hustings event took place today with all five candidates (Jeremy Corbyn MP was…
Labour’s Stark Choices Are Exposed at the Fabian Conference
The ghosts of Leaders past stalked the halls of the Fabian Conference this morning, Amid much discussion of…
A difficult step
Labour are often accused of being the most tribal of the mainstream political parties. For my money, I…
David Goodhart is wrong: it’s not Labour activists who have become disconnected with the country
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party…
Attention please: there’s too much politics in our leadership contest
This is going to sound like a weird thing to say but bear with me: There’s too much…
Poetry and prose please!
“As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.…
On comfort zones and moving on
There are five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Just a week ago, we were…
We motivated our activists, not the country
We have become a party that looks and thinks too much like me and too little like…
Why do The Sun need to pay people to praise the Tories?
The Sun have made no secret of their support for the Tory party in this election (except of…
