Book review – Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds MP
Nick Thomas-Symonds’ new biography of Harold Wilson is titled The Winner, which should give you a fair idea of…
Morgan Jones
Review: Blue Labour, The Politics of the Common Good by Maurice Glasman
I was somewhat surprised to realise that Maurice Glasman, who founded Blue Labour in 2009 had not, in…
Review: Labour’s Civil Wars by Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice
The Forde Report’s been published, the national executive committee (NEC) ballots are dropping, and Sam Tarry is off…
We need empowered unions and strong protections, not tinkering from ministers
The government, you will be pleased to hear, has launched a scheme to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. It…
Review: Our Bloc by James Schneider – a plan to win for the British left
James Schneider, Jeremy Corbyn’s former comms director, has written a book. It is short, lucid, and pleasantly free…
Being ‘local’ might make for a good leaflet, but does it make for better MPs?
Our last two general elections have been snap elections, which saw candidate selections take place in hurried, opaque…
When our activists are yelled at about Jimmy Savile, we have the PM to thank
A few weeks ago, when I was out on the doorstep in Birmingham Erdington with a group of…
Why it’s the Pen Farthing scandal that should’ve brought down Boris Johnson
Sue Gray has given a damning update and Boris Johnson, less one MP and the confidence of an…
Boris Johnson, a character – one of the worst ways you can describe a person
It is safe to say that we – that is, the people who write in and read LabourList –…
Keep it comradely: what does ‘comrade’ mean, who uses the term and why?
At Labour conference this year, John Bercow – the Monday Club member turned long-serving Tory MP turned Speaker…
