A troubling vision: Why Corbyn’s economic policy proposals are wrong
The increasingly acrimonious Labour leadership debate is very much a battle over personalities rather than policies. Yet Jeremy…
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Senior Labour figures: stop treating members like children and trust us to decide who we want to be leader
The Labour Party is having its most grown-up conversation in a generation; so without resorting to threats and…
What happened at last night’s Scottish Labour TV hustings?
An invited audience of current and former Labour supporters heard Kezia Dugdale and Ken Macintosh present their vision…
Learning lessons from Labour’s key seats
By Will Straw and Sally Keeble The 2015 general election was Labour’s for the taking. The coalition was…
Where is Jeremy Corbyn’s support coming from?
I haven’t bought the argument there is a mass entryism problem afflicting Labour’s leadership election. Entryism means an…
This leadership contest needs more vision, direction and policy
If there was a box marked “none of the above” it would probably be on course to win…
Attlee’s Government reminds Labour’s moderates what they gave up
Back in 1987, Ken Livingstone wrote a book called ‘If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It’. I picked…
Is Jeremy Corbyn serious?
Have you heard about this thing called YouTube? It really is rather extraordinary. Some stray clicking last night…
Education is a collective good – it’s time for a National Education Service
When we fail to invest in people their potential is wasted and our economy underperforms. The more we…
English Labour: I’m not persuaded
In recent days rather a lot of my colleagues have expressed their support for the idea of an…
