Comment ‘Tony Blair is wrong on net zero, and wrong on what voters think about it’ The Tony Blair Institute’s latest climate paper, The Climate Paradox, rightly acknowledges a significant truth – the climate… Ben Carter 30th April, 2025, 4:30 pm
Comment Artificial intelligence: ‘If progressives don’t harness AI, the populist right will’ Is Reform taking on Labour or the Tories? Commentators who have been fiercely speculating on this question will… Ryan Wain 11th January, 2025, 6:00 am
Analysis Shades of Blair, Bond, McSweeney: 5 things the Plan for Change tells us Many of the metrics unveiled in Keir Starmer’s Plan for Change had been briefed to the media in… Tom Belger 6th December, 2024, 8:56 am
News Former Blair chief of staff Jonathan Powell appointed as Starmer’s National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff to Tony Blair, has been announced as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s… James Moules 8th November, 2024, 11:56 am
Comment ‘They don’t always get what they wish for: A history of how Labour elects its leaders – and when reform goes wrong’ We are now in the season before conference, when ideas are floated to test support before delegates gather.… David Kogan 2nd September, 2024, 3:00 pm
News Jonathan Reynolds: Labour not ‘harking back to any era’ as Alexander and Smith return and Blair speaks out The Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said Labour is not “harking back to any era”, after… Tom Belger 7th July, 2024, 9:18 am
News Tony Blair calls for Keir Starmer to be tough on immigration, crime and ‘wokeism’ Tony Blair has called for “a plan” for immigration control, tougher action on crime and for the new… Ben Duncan-Duggal 7th July, 2024, 8:56 am
Comment ‘Exit plans and Steptoe and Sons: How past leaders spent nervy election nights’ The polls are open and the campaign is over. And while the political parties will spend the day… Anthony Broxton 4th July, 2024, 4:03 pm
Comment ‘Starmerism is about fixing the failures of not only Corbynism, but Blairism too’ When campaigning to be Labour leader Keir Starmer did not want to be identified with Tony Blair. He… Steven Fielding 21st June, 2024, 7:30 am
Comment ‘Poll leads mean Starmer thinks he can afford to ruthlessly reshape Labour’ Keir Starmer may proclaim himself as a socialist, and Rachel Reeves a social democrat, but whether Diane Abbott… Stuart Thomson 31st May, 2024, 9:30 am