Gordon Brown is likely to be remembered as Labour's greatest chancellor. Will his reputation as prime minister improve...
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The French Exception
The biggest driver of Emmanuel Macron appears to be his own ambition – but that is not his shortcoming, writes Conor...
When They Go Low, We Go High
Great speeches are an essential tool of democracy, and a bulwark against base populism, argues Paul Richards On the...
A family affair
James Graham’s Labour of Love showcases our party’s greatest asset – its people, writes Anna Turley Having heard great...
The Rage
Julia Ebner's armoury of critical thought – and willingness to humanise even her deadliest enemies – is what makes her...
Brexit and British Politics
Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon’s authoritative text digs into the rebalancing of political values that lay behind...
Things Can Only Get Worse?
Sophie Francis‑Cansfield finds the conclusion of John O’Farrell’s sequel a welcome relief John O’Farrell’s latest book...
What Happened
While the book is clearly therapeutic for its author, Hillary Clinton’s account of the 2016 US election is far from...
Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew
Why it took non-Jewish Labour activist – Robert Philpot – to understand the former prime minister’s relationship with...
British Foreign Policy After Brexit
Adam Harrison argues that while there are needles in David Owen and David Ludlow’s haystack, they are hard to find...
How to Lose a Referendum
Jason Farrell and Paul Goldsmith take a healthy long-lens view of the referendum, writes Roger Liddle ‘A device of...
How we got to the post-truth stage
Politicians learning the wrong lessons from tight message discipline have created a vacuum in which fake news is able...