Blue Labour Articles

These days most of us work in offices, and we aren’t happy about it. Hunched over our computers, we spend almost the entire day sitting down – apart from the infamous bout of exercise in the gym that, in reality, only about three per cent of us do. Most of our work...

Membership is what Labour is all about – and yet our party is shrinking. We may have experienced a spike in new registrations since the last election, but the long-term trend is clear: people no longer feel that Labour is where they belong. People haven’t stopped...

As ‘Double-Dip’ George prepares for his U-turn and, in the words of Mary Riddell, announces a splurge of spending, there is an uncanny sense that we are reliving the 1970s. After the 25 years of mixed economy, state-owned, welfare state society that was put in place...

Inequality is now an issue for ‘middle Britain’, Stewart Wood tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison When Ed Miliband made his first 10 appointments to the House of Lords last November, three of them were academics. None were exactly political neophytes: Ruth Lister,...