Labour’s class obsession shows how far the party has shifted from its origins
Labour is currently all at sea over class – and at risk of drowning. For a party whose members imagine…
Keir Starmer is Labour’s ‘continuity Miliband’ contender
Rebecca Long-Bailey denies she is the ‘Continuity Cobynism’ candidate in Labour’s leadership election. Her public statements suggest otherwise. Having given…
Labour’s moral superiority problem
Keir Starmer has been described as a ‘moral leftwinger’. He certainly liberally peppered his leadership campaign launch speech with references to…
Is the Labour party ready to abandon ‘Corbynism’?
As Labour prepares to say goodbye to Jeremy Corbyn, if not yet ‘Corbynism’, it is possible to put his time…
Corbyn’s cult have learnt nothing from the left’s last election wipeout
I initially misread the reaction of Labour’s leading Corbynites and social media outriders to the party’s most cataclysmic defeat since…
Will Brexit save Corbynism?
In the immediate aftermath of an election, its meaning is established. Once this is fixed, it is almost impossible to…
Could Keir Starmer succeed as the next leader of the Labour party?
During his last days as manager of Manchester United it was widely thought that whoever came after Sir Alex Ferguson…
We are witnessing the death throes of Corbynism
Jeremy Corbyn has given up on winning this election and is currently struggling to ensure that on 12 December Boris…
Could Corbyn cling on if Labour lose?
Unless Jeremy Corbyn defies the odds, it looks unlikely that the Labour leader will become prime minister come 13 December.…
When it comes to trust, our party leaders could learn from Tony Blair
According to a YouGov poll 45 per cent of Britons believe today’s party leaders are worse than any of their…
Jeremy Corbyn is a pale imitation of Clement Attlee
To excited cheers, Angela Rayner last week promised Labour supporters that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government ‘would knock the socks off’…
Corbyn’s ruthless party leadership shows he is an heir to Blair
Is Jeremy Corbyn a democrat? With Labour now promising a ‘democratic revolution’ this has become a critical question. We can…
Boris Johnson is repeating Churchill’s campaign mistake
In one of Boris Johnson’s opening salvoes of the 2019 campaign he said of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party: ‘they detest…
What The Clangers can teach us about the snap election
On election night on 10 October 1974, the BBC broadcast a special episode of The Clangers, a children’s animated television series. The…
Can Labour be ‘populist’ without a Brexit position?
So Jeremy Corbyn has finally agreed to back Boris Johnson’s demand for a December election. In the end he had…
Is this the beginning of the end for Jeremy Corbyn?
Did Labour’s conference help or hinder Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister? For some, Corbyn ended up stronger than…
Jeremy Corbyn is on the wrong side of history over Brexit
So far as his keenest supporters are concerned, Jeremy Corbyn has always been on the Right Side of History. From…
Why the far-left really does think there is a ‘coup’
On Saturday thousands of people across Britain demonstrated against Boris Johnson’s recently-announced prorogation of parliament. Despite the heated response it…
Is this misunderstanding behind the rise of populism?
The latest stage in a series of arcane gambits and cunning plans designed to frustrate Britain’s exit from the EU…
The real reason Corbynites turned on Caroline Lucas and the Greens
Caroline Lucas’s plan for an all-female emergency Cabinet to stop a no-deal Brexit is a fantasy, with no prospect of success.…
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