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No benign gathering of bureaucrats

If you think the conference arrangements committee of the Labour party is unimportant then you do not understand the Labour party. It may sound like a benign gathering of bureaucrats who choose the colour of the backdrop or the warm-up music, but in reality it is...

An open letter to Liz Kendall supporters

Dear Liz Kendall voter Liz Kendall is right: we lost in May because of a toxic combination of doubts about our economic credibility and the leadership of our party. This is surely indisputable. Liz has consistently recognised how too many of the public viewed us and...

100 days of Tory majority

100 days ago this weekend, Labour party members were falling exhausted into their beds as the rest of the country was waking up to the first Conservative majority government in 18 years. The first days of a government are not everything, but they are indicative of how...

Corbynomics and the magic money trees

The spending side of Corbynomics – set out in his manifesto The Economy in 2020 – with its promises of renationalisation of the railways, the energy companies and even the banking and financial services sectors, has received deserved scrutiny. Less so the question...