The French elections should send a chill down the spine of every Labour member
The first round of voting for a new President of France should send chills down the spine of…
Neal Lawson
Labour might just win office, but it will be less prepared for power than in 1997
While everyone naturally enjoys the Prime Minister’s meltdown, time and attention is being deflected away from serious alternatives…
Labour’s response to the inevitable ‘coalition of chaos’ charge is all wrong
As allegations of Tory corruption and incompetence go up, their poll lead goes down. The two main parties…
Labour must embrace pluralism – or its future looks short and bleak
Keir Starmer has given an interview to the Daily Record on his tour this week of Scotland, in…
Until we reconnect power with politics, nativism will prevail
News of Labour’s plan to make use of the Union Flag in an attempt to rebrand was met…
Keir Starmer urged to back radical constitutional reforms by new report
Keir Starmer has been urged by a new Labour report to back radical constitutional reforms including major devolution,…
Labour cannot afford to be outflanked on universal basic income
The Financial Times published a letter last week, signed by 110 MPs and peers, calling for a ‘recovery…
Labour is at war with itself. What’s needed? The soft left
The ground beneath us keeps moving so fast, we can’t keep up. It won’t stop. This fluidity is…
Despite its moral and policy challenges to Labour, the idea of basic income grows
The parliamentary backwards-and-forwards over Brexit conceals two realities: what caused Brexit and what is happening now in our…
Neal Lawson: Why I’m calling for a Brexit citizens’ assembly
Labour is deeply divided over Brexit. The spilt is both ideological and electoral. There seems little point pretending…
