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‘A mood for change … that has given Democrats advantages on virtually every issue’

How Europe’s social democrats can regain the initiative

Mark Day enjoys an assessment of the similarities between New Labour and Old

‘The conservative majority in national politics, that is the presidential majority that the conservatives were able to...

While the Labour party in the UK has recently been experiencing something of a Brown ‘bounce’, elsewhere in Europe,...

New Labour's Old RootsPatrick DiamondCentral Books, £17.95Of all the accusations made by the left against New Labour,...

Britain is becoming increasingly complacent about its mother tongue, claims a new report from the thinktank Demos. As...

Compass’ decision to ballot its members on whom it should support for Labour’s deputy leader has raised hackles in the...

Tanked up is delighted to welcome a new religious thinktank to the hallowed halls of wonkery. November saw the launch...

Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution In Three ActsSimon JenkinsPenguin Allen Lane, 375pp, £20.00That Margaret Thatcher...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ fiercely guarded reputation for political impartiality rests assured. At the...

The journos are taking over in thinktank land,' notes a hair-raising piece in the August edition of Prospect. With...

With the Tories ‘aspiring’ to meet Labour’s pledge to end child poverty by 2020, the need to tackle the legacy of...

Before his death in May, Eric Forth, the right-wing Tory MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, told members of his local...

The free-market Adam Smith Institute is having problems adjusting to the Tories’ sudden leftward lurch. In response to...