Politics can be overflowing with gurus at times. And it’s sometimes hard to tell who might be a flash in the pan rather than the next Beatrice Webb.
So it’s worth reflecting on those who have genuinely changed the political landscape,...
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They say that when you know you’re going to die, you don’t remember the deadlines or the car you had, you don’t wish you’d worked harder or saved more or eaten more fibre – you remember the kisses, the long...
Young people often get written off in party politics. What’s the point in chasing their support when they don’t vote anyway? Well for Labour, there’s every point. Turning out first-time voters who say they support the party will play a...
The big story from the police and crime commissioner elections was low turnout. And it was the same in the three recent by-elections. It may be that a grey mid-November polling day is to blame, but it may be that...
On the day after the 2 May 2013 council elections the BBC posted a lead story on their news website about the previous day’s vote, containing the line: “UKIP is the big story of the night, gaining 139 councillors and...
The late Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013) was an intellectual light to the American liberal left, whose ability to communicate complex ideas to the public led the great Harvard political philosopher John Rawls to liken him to a modern day John Stuart...