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Throughout the long history of the Fabians, the society has been one of the key places where Labour leaders come to define their vision. In pamphlets, articles and speeches, they have sketched out the future they want for Britain. Keir…
Of the many tragic missed opportunities over the last five years, the failure to build a political bridge between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn’s re-energised social democracy and the tendency sometimes called Blue Labour is one of the less…
When a ‘culture war’ issue comes to the fore, Labour’s reaction is often to ignore it. Such battles make many politicians on the left uncomfortable. They squirm in interviews, worried that any position taken will either anger the base or…
The Labour Party has a problem. We know our opponents are using made-up ‘culture war’ controversies against us. But we don’t really know what to do about it. We can’t ignore each conflict the Tories throw our way in the hope they’ll fizzle…
What can Labour learn from Gareth Southgate? The softly spoken, patently decent manager of the England football team has become a figurehead of patriotism, as opposed to nationalism, and a mainstream, powerful advocate for players taking…
Now we know that 2019 was not as low as Labour can go. The party’s grim mauling in Hartlepool is proof that even working-class seats Jeremy Corbyn won are vulnerable to Boris Johnson’s new look Tory party. Results in council contests point…
Britain may be an island, but it is not its own planet. Our economy, culture and political system are similar to others across Western Europe and we are subject to the same global forces. Yet mainstream political analysts rarely make even…
Steve Akehurst and Tom Mauchline have offered an intriguing analysis (writing in Strong Message Here) pointing towards a tentative way for Labour to win the next general election. They convincingly demonstrate how some traditional Tory…
Have you received any ‘Happy St. George’s Day’ messages yet? Are you doing anything to mark the occasion? Did you even know it was today? If your answers are no to all three… don’t worry, you’re not alone. Of course, if our Celtic…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy in a Chatham House webinar this afternoon. When I took up this post 12 months ago, I made it my mission in my first year to bring about a values-based…
