Hopi Sen Articles

Labour allowed everyone to give its spending plans whatever name they liked, writes Hopi Sen On 2 November 1948, Hansard records that Michael Foot told the House of Commons, ‘I have not seen much of this eager enthusiasm among members of the Conservative party to...

Conjure up images of the good, and if you are anything like me, your mind will offer tropes as diverse as charity workers, saints, nurses, and Feargal Sharkey singing about love back in 1985. Unless you are a particularly passionate believer in the political process,...

Conservative thinktank Renewal's new pamphlet The Party of Opportunity is intended to blow away the idea that the Conservative party is only for braying public schoolboys and hard-faced men who have done well out of capitalism. In the pamphlet 14 Tory members of...

Ed Miliband’s favourite childhood game was, famously, a Rubik’s cube. Young Miliband possessed prodigious ability with the coloured squares, twisting them hither and thither until they aligned correctly. I was less brilliant. My preferred intellectual test was Master...