My constituency now has a Labour member of parliament, a Labour council, a Labour assembly member with a remarkable...
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Joan Ryan Articles
Lasting peace has to be built on the twin pillars of coexistence
The terrorist attacks which have occurred over the past two weeks in Israel have been truly shocking. To take just...
Starter for 10
Stephen Bush investigates how Labour succeeded in the 10 gains it made from the Tories last month If failure is a...
Countering a Tory fightback
Every time Labour loses a general election, it does worse the time after. 1983 was worse than 1979, and the same is...
Suburban swingers
As Philip Gould put it, the suburbs are not ‘places with great political traditions and dramatic folklore’. Most...
The ‘hidden majority myth’ myth
The theory that Labour should handle the Liberal Democrats with kid-gloves for fear that damaging their vote will...
The hidden majority myth
Targeting only former Liberal Democrat voters is a recipe for failure, explains Joan Ryan At this year’s local...
The new centre-ground
Progress today launches The new centre-ground: how can progressives win a new majority?, a major new publication on...
All change
Take care when assessing the impact of boundary changes on the next election, cautions Lewis Baston When the Boundary...
The Stevenage test
Like the famous curate's egg, Labour's election performance earlier this month was good in parts. A decade of losses...
The BNP and AV
The British National Party has a total of zero members of parliament. Under our first past the post electoral system...
What we’re rereading
Labour did badly in key marginals in May but even worse in seats it lost in 2005. We cannot abandon these places if we...