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Against Labour’s nascent left localism

By Nat Rutherford

An internal Labour movement of thinktankers, MPs, journalists, and academics (including LabourList’s own editor, Mark Ferguson) has coalesced in recent months around the idea of devolved power. This centre-left informal pressure group…

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Contributory welfare – politically prudent, morally misguided

By Nat Rutherford

Rachel Reeves’s announcement last week that Labour are considering increasing JSA payments for those with four years’ worth of National Insurance contributions won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the development of Labour’s…

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Are you loyal to Labour’s ideas? Or the institutions?

By Nat Rutherford

In a recent episode of Borgen, BBC Four’s Danish political drama, Birgitte Nyborg, that fictive paragon of principle, debated her old ally Bent Sejrø on the merits of forming a new political party. Bent attempts to dissuade Birgitte…

The political philosophy of One Nation
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The political philosophy of One Nation

By Nat Rutherford

In the months following Ed Miliband’s speech at the Fabian annual conference, in which One Nation was formally launched, it looked as though the rebranding was only that – a new name without new content. The language of unity seemed staid…

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