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It was like listening to a conversation through two baked bean tins and a piece of string … with cotton wool wedged in my ears. I could just about manage to catch Red Ken’s dulcet tones banging on about Blair (or it could have been Clare!) and how the neoliberals sold...

Stephen Bush reviews the influence of The Purple Book on Ed Miliband’s Labour party For Labour, things tend to get worse before they get better. Narrow losses in 1951 and 1979 were followed by emphatic defeats in 1955 and 1983. In Holyrood, a knife-edge result in 2007...

If you want an insight into how the 2015 election might play out, don’t look at the results of the local elections. Look at the new five-pound note. When Winston Churchill replaces Elizabeth Fry on the back of the fiver, notes in England and Wales will celebrate a...

Many charges can be levelled against David Cameron’s government. But not giving Old Etonians a fair break is probably not one of them. No fewer than four members of the prime minister’s inner circle attended his old school. It is perhaps unsurprising then that...