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Greg Rosen Articles

‘We have to impress the country’

Labour’s defeat at the 2015 election was severe. There is no getting around that. Before the election many media commentators speculated that the Conservatives might run a '1992 campaign' and perhaps Labour might end up with a 1992 result. It was worse than that. It...

The Fourth Revolution

The Fourth Revolution, a new 'zeitgeist' book by the editor-in-chief and management wditor of the Economist, is a brilliant book both in conception and execution. While the critic can find nits at which to pick (the observation that Ed Miliband ‘owes his position to...

Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister

Patrick Diamond’s excellent book is a fascinating account of New Labour’s approach to government written by one of those at the heart of Tony Blair’s governing ‘project’. Diamond’s account is both perceptive and informed, interweaving his own experience as a...

What would Keir Hardie make of Labour 111 years on?

Keir Hardie’s first manifesto included three key aims: home rule, a minimum wage and temperance. It took until the Blair-Brown governments to achieve the first two. The third aim slipped into quiet obscurity.