‘Passion, purpose and performance – Starmer should steer away from doom and gloom to maintain momentum’
To sustain itself in government, Labour has two fundamental tasks which Keir Starmer must grip in his speech…
Patrick Diamond
‘From the squeezed middle to the shires: How Labour broke through in the south’
Thursday’s election results dramatically underlined how far Labour has reversed the ‘Southern Discomfort’ that afflicted the party for…
‘100 years since Labour first came to power, we must ask why it so often loses’
This month heralds the publication of a swathe of books commemorating the first Labour government in January 1924.…
Best Labour leaders we never had: Anthony Crosland
It has to be said that Anthony Crosland, among the leading post-war revisionist social democrats in the British…
‘A Labour government won’t have an easy start. We must plan for hard times’
Across the advanced economy nations, centre-left parties are governing in hard times. The Mile End Institute’s recent conference…
Six decades on, Crosland would have been horrified by the rise of populism and the spread of “post-truth” politics
Anthony Crosland’s momentous treatise on The Future of Socialism was published 60 years ago, in a Britain afflicted…
A fairer capitalism for the next generation
More must be done to tackle the marginalisation of young people in Britain, and the inequality of opportunities…
