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The Paul Richards column This morning, to honour the anniversary a lifetime ago of John Lennon's murder outside the Dakota Building, I put on my vinyl copy of Double Fantasy. For those under 30, vinyl is what records are made from, and…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women In the history of the Labour movement, there are shining stars and hard grafters. Mary MacArthur (1880-1921) was both. By the time of her premature death, she had organised more than 300,000 women…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Labour policies make up the majority of the most successful policies of the past thirty years, a report by the Institute of Government suggests, with implementation of the minimum wage rated the most…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women It's a tough gig to summarise the contribution of Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) to the Labour movement in a few words. A list of her accomplishments - some achieved alone, most achieved in partnership…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Fact-check for Nicky Campbell, based on Fraser Nelson's Coffee House blog of Campbell's radio interview with Ed Miliband. "NC: Are you a socialist? EM: Yeah, I am a socialist. NC: Oh my goodness! We haven't…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women In the mythology of the Labour Party, Nye Bevan is often quoted as having exhorted those at risk of losing the faith: 'I tell you, it is the Labour Party or nothing.' But those words were not a…
Kathryn Perera's History of Labour Women "The poverty of the poor is not an accident, a temporary difficulty, a personal fault. It is the permanent state in which the vast majority of the citizens of any capitalist country have to live." So…
The Paul Richards column Michael Young's (1915-2002) contribution to the Labour Party and social reform is so great that we can forgive his brief membership of the SDP in the early 1980s. He married a Fabian enthusiasm for facts and…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The boards outside the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue advertise the Michael Jackson tribute musical 'Thriller Live' but the king of pop was displaced for one night only as the Labour tribe gathered last…
The Paul Richards column George Orwell (1903-50), whose real name, as everyone knows, was Eric Blair, led an extraordinary life, from imperial policeman in Burma to infantryman in the Spanish Civil War, from MI5 informer to assassin…
The Paul Richards column If you want to imagine what George Douglas Howard Cole was like, you could do worse than watch an episode of Bagpuss. Oliver Postgate, the creator of the children's animated story, modelled Professor Yaffle, the…
The Paul Richards column When Richard Tawney was a young man, he was given a rifle and sent out to France to kill Germans. Our view of the First World War focuses on the senseless loss of life, rows of gravestones and horror beyond our…
