While we decipher early signals on what the new government will bring, Dominic Cummings’ blog has become a must-read. Not because of the deliciously toxic anec...
Of all the
candidates vying for the party leadership, Lisa Nandy appears to have put the
most thought into why Labour was so badly beaten in the general electi...
At a recent lunch, discussion turned to the question of who
had been the country’s worst ever prime minister. The usual suspects were
rolled out: Lord North, t...
With the intervention of the Board of Deputies of British Jews into the Labour party's leadership election, antisemitism has become one of the campaign’s defin...
Marilyn Stathern, in
her famous article on the ‘Tyranny of transparency’, asked: ‘what does visibility conceal’? While openness can shed light on some ar...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...
The clock struck ten and the red wall crumbled, and in came the blue tide. Labour are staring into the abyss, if not already plummeting in it. This was a demis...
Tony Blair consistently draws a distinction between the ‘politics of protest’ and the ‘politics of governance’. His politics mean he’s the ‘guy on the placard’...
The debate about decolonising the curriculum is too readily open to misrepresentation, particularly by those who see it as a manifestation of what they call ‘p...
For most of this last quarter‐century, the Nolan Report has provided the underlying ethical
basis for public life in the United Kingdom. The recommendations of...
Our newly elected prime minister Boris Johnson is infamous for finding it difficult to tell the truth. The general election campaign was littered with untruths...
The fact that
Labour has just suffered its worst general election result since 1935 is being
widely quoted.
It’s meant to be
mark of how bad things are for...
