David Talbot Articles

The two main antagonists for May 2015 have had their say. Right down to choosing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow’ – immortalised in Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign of 1992, it also sold five million copies in 1977, incidentally –...

Trade unions may be falling back out of love with the European Union, writes David Talbot At its conference in Brighton in 1962, Labour’s leader, Hugh Gaitskell, led the calls to reject Britain’s proposed entry into the European Economic Community. His call for the...

December and, more importantly Christmas, are an extended sojourn where the only politics on offer are that of the family variety. The battles and spoils of the year past recede into an unusual outburst of bonhomie. That and it is always worth seeing Ed Balls dressed...

Weeks of lurid details of sex, drug-fuelled parties, fraternal healings, ‘nightmare colleagues’ and continuing rumblings over allegations of vote-rigging – November was just another month in the Labour party. And yet Labour entered the final month of 2013 in robust...