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Ed Miliband Articles

The Russia dilemma

Britain’s political class did not distinguish itself in its immediate response to the Crimean crisis. A zoom lens outside Downing Street which captured Cabinet Office papers in the hands of an unguarded official seemed to reveal yet more evidence that the protection...

What Tony Benn got right

My grandfather died two years ago this week. He was one of my heroes, but I have got to be honest: he was a career doctor. From his late teenage years and throughout his time at university, everything he did – even his year as a sabbatical officer at the student union...

No more Calpol politics: how Labour wins a majority in 2015

We are good at opposition. Be it the bedroom tax or the sell-off of our forests, rarely have we missed a Tory own goal, and the united, assured outrage that our party does so well has put paid to many of the Conservatives’ more radical proposals. This confidence has...

The ‘thud factor’ has arrived

Ed Miliband's announcement on the referendum question has in equal parts been been overanalysed and misinterpreted. Strategically he has no interest in, and no intention of, holding an in-out vote on the European Union. Why on earth should he? This issue splits the...