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…
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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…
Not even Obama is safe from the spiteful wrath of the increasingly desperate eurosceptics
The question is leading. The franchise is too great. The timing is wrong. Unpurdah is unfair. The Yes…
Bombing Syria: parliament, a myth, and four conditions before we go to war again
Just one of those things which everyone knows but which ain’t so: that in 2013 the House of…
A winning economic programme for the future – Questions to leadership candidates on the economy
Below Peter Hain has written an open letter to Labour’s leadership candidates Dear Colleagues, Comments by some Labour…
