Alex White Articles

Cameron is not just out of ideas – he never had one. Futility is easily revealed by hindsight but when William Hague presented his shadow cabinet with copies of Philip Gould's 'The Unfinished Revolution' – inscribed with 'know thine enemy' – he might have been hoping...

George Osborne is like most managers of the English national football team. Early exits from major tournaments are swiftly followed by a feeling that instead of putting up with habitually poor performances, we might consider investing in a bright future from the...

When blue Labour first emerged it resembled, according to Sunder Katwala, ‘a cult band given quasi-legendary status precisely because it broke up before recording anything’. The band has been back in the recording studio, and the result is Blue Labour: Forging a New...

In 1977, an article by Anthony Arblaster declared the death of Labour's revisionist movement. He made a case which looks obvious with hindsight (and with just a hint of familiarity today). The modernisers' agenda was being hampered, he said; by political and personal...