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England is not Labour’s country, it is the country where we are lost. Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book, The Buried Giant, is about England. In it, the countryside is covered with a dense fog of forgetting, a fog that confuses and distresses the characters, but, as they...

Most of the coverage of Jon Cruddas’ speech in east London this week has focussed on his call for an English Labour party. Whether you agree or disagree, is it not bizarre quite how controversial that call is within Labour? The true radicalism was found elsewhere in...

My good friend Peter Kyle will welcome you to Brighton and Hove this weekend; it is a privilege to work with him leading and representing the city that hosts the Labour party conference. Those familiar with our city will immediately notice one big change: a 160-metre...

I used to envy the Liberal Democrats their conference. Before the coalition came, it seemed the members were really engaged in the serious business of making policy. Policy that would be adopted by their leaders and taken seriously. The coalition put lie to all that...