Labour Party
Conflicts of interest
Labour, like the Church, may never reconcile the different views of all its supporters
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
How Labour are taking the voting public for granted
Labour has no hope of returning to power if they fail to capture a comfortable working-class seat from a government that has presided over the greatest crisis in living memory
Labour’s Local Election launch
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner failed to convince the electorate that Labour has totally renounced Corbynism
How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?
Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?
If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose
The thorny problem Christianity and Judaism never address
Why do Christianity and Judaism still find it so hard to get along?
But who was behind the iceberg?
Jeremy Corbyn sails into deep water with the EHRC
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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
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?