David Butler Articles

Labour can no longer let its intellectual conservatism hold it back, writes David Butler Labour finds itself within a gilded cage of intellectual conservatism. The party must understand and offer solutions to a range of complex issues: the productivity puzzle and...

Today’s PMQs was a rather scattergun affair. Neither side of the chamber coalesced around a single issue. The terrible scandal of Jimmy Savile’s abuse and the shutdown of the Newsnight investigation, and the continued pressure on the government over voting rights for...

The two ideologies that once bore Hugh Gaitskell’s name are long dead, not used by anyone but historians. One of them, Butskellism, deserves to remain there, the days of import controls, capital restrictions, and fixed exchange rates are long gone. Gaitskellism, the...