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Tomorrow, up and down the country the English Defence League and various other far-right groups will attempt to divide our communities through fear. I have signed the letter put together by Hope Not Hate which succinctly and excellently…
When Dennis Skinner interrupted flunkies going about their business during preparations for the Queen’s Speech with the words; ‘Royal Mail to be sold off; Queen’s head to be privatised!’ he wasn’t joking. The planned sell off is not only an…
The post election analysis-fest has provided a helpful summary of most of the wrong responses to UKIP. Many of these responses fall into the comfortable category of ‘this only confirms what I’ve always believed!’ For some, the big vote for…
Whilst Labour has a healthy poll lead nationally, there are few places where the party is performing better than in Wales. Riding high in the polls, in control of the Welsh Assembly, and looking to make gains in the 2015 elections, the…
This week I attended the launch of LabourList's One Nation book. Arriving, as I often do, ten minutes late meant I was confined to the corner as a packed-out room listened to, and engaged in the debate on the future of the party. As someone…
While the interest of Ed Miliband’s One Nation Labour derives in part from the ground it appropriates from Benjamin Disraeli and the Conservative tradition, One Nation also draws on the language of social patriotism pioneered by progressive…
Modern Britain is unique: a nation of nations. Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland are proud and distinct parts of our United Kingdom, each with their own traditions and culture, heritage and history, accents, dialects and even…
By Guy Shrubsole Can you be both a patriot and an environmentalist? One seems to privilege the national over all else, my country right or wrong. The other requires you to think globally, to safeguard the interests of the planet as a whole…
Ed Miliband has gone where generations of the left have feared to tread. His audacious raid on the so-called ‘one nation politics’ associated with Disraeli’s Conservative Party, opens the door for Labour to relate its vision and policies to…
By Michael Jacobs One of the beauties of the ‘One Nation’ theme is that it allows Labour to occupy the field of ‘soft patriotism’: the love of country invoked by Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony at the Olympics. Not the hard glorification of…
