Patrick Diamond Articles

After a break-up, you have two options. There is reassurance: I did nothing wrong, it could have happened to anyone, I was a victim of circumstance. But then there is reappraisal: when you have to concede that the whole thing was at least partly – perhaps wholly –...

A party ready for government needs to have a mature policy-making process.  It needs to be bold and realistic, and it needs to appreciate that there will be difficult challenges to face once it is elected. That is why the Purple Papers are a useful and distinct...

For the coalition government, and for any future Labour government, the choices around adult social care funding in England can really be boiled down to two questions. The first is: what is the state going to spend on care and support in future and how will this money...

On a few occasions, as Steve Van Riel notes in The Purple Papers, the Labour government did suggest people should pay more for better public services. When it was a rise in national insurance for the health service, this was largely popular. When it was a levy on...