Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man
Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”
Liar! Liar! House on fire?
Never mind whether PMQs matter – does Parliament currently matter?
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
Parliament is Labour’s best friend
Labour needs to learn to use the new hybrid arrangement to their advantage
PMQs: Bullying Boris silences his own benches
Bluster and evasion come too easily to the prime minister
The anti-Corbyn plot that never was
John Ware looks at the hard facts behind Momentum’s claims of centrist betrayal
PMQs: Time to move on
Whatever Boris Johnson may claim, Starmer has emerged from Corbyn’s shadow
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
Shifting momentum: why Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey
There is more to RLB’s sacking than meets the eye
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense