Time flies. The terrible defeat of 2010 feels like yesterday, but suddenly Labour’s 2015 manifesto is just two years away. The good news is the party’s policy debates have energy and vigour, but so far there’s a lot more diagnosis...
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The phoney war over Scotland’s constitutional future has finally ended. We now know that Scots will be asked to vote in 2014 on a straight ‘yes or no’ question about whether Scotland should become an independent country. As the real...
The pamphlet that hit doorsteps alongside the Autumn 2012 Fabian Review was Letting Go: How Labour can learn to stop worrying and trust the people by Jon Wilson.
Wilson argues that Labour needs to become a movement rooted in people’s experience, not...
There's a problem with Labour's message. No one knows what it is. We ourselves aren't too clear what we're about or what our party stands for.
It used to be simple and clear: Labour was there to use the power of...
The Conservative party’s ‘big society’ rhetoric has failed, and failed spectacularly. David Cameron admitted as much in his speech to the Tory conference when he said he had “spent three years trying to explain the big society”. Trying and failing.
This...
How to reconnect people with politics is a preoccupation in the Westminster village, but it is the wrong starting point. The majority of the public are not apathetic, but many are seriously disillusioned with mainstream political parties. As one of...