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A member of my local party, a pensioner, came up to me at a recent community festival, fuming. He was, and still is, extremely angry at the failure of the Labour party to regain power this year. His anger was not of the type I have seen much in the party. It was...

Iraq remains a four-letter word in British politics that just keeps giving. Owen Jones' recent effusive encomium in the Guardian to Jeremy Corbyn and his pledge to apologise for what Jones calls 'the greatest western foreign policy catastrophe of our time' also lists...

Labour was founded, not to bring about socialism – that came later with the 1918 Fabian-authored Clause IV, but to put working-class people into parliament. Initially groups like the National Union of Miners stayed with the Liberal party, hoping for scraps off the...

At the weekend I met a couple who have just joined the Labour party in my home town Witney. The two of them cornered me at a birthday bash for another new member, an old friend of mine. These are just a few of the men and women, old and young, who have boosted Witney...