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John Lewis Articles

One step forward, two steps back

Donald Trump cannot belittle the hard won rights that John Lewis and his colleague fought so hard for, writes Ella Crine At the end of the film ‘Selma’, we discover that the brave young boy who marches with the great Martin Luther King to the eponymous town goes on to...

Big policy ideas must not get lost amid the noise

Politicians are obsessed with ‘narrative’. Modern government deals with a bewilderingly diverse range of policy problems: from declining bee populations, to NHS waiting lists, to aircraft carrier procurement. Boiling this down to a simple, salient, doorstep-ready...

Clegg’s ESOP fables

If Nick Clegg returned to earth as an animal he would be a magpie. He flits down and steals other ideas and then shows them off as glittering Clegg-made originals. It is his contribution to the coalition. He talks the talk about helping the poor, reconnecting to...

Now for public services, Ed

After a shaky start to the new year, Ed Miliband’s speech this week served not only to steady the ship but introduce a welcome injection of reality into Labour’s internal economic debate. Perhaps most importantly, he began to grapple with the fundamental issue that...