RH Tawney Articles

The next Labour leader should see it as their duty to create the space to encourage real debate It used to be said of the American Democrats that, in the aftermath of their repeated electoral drubbings in the 1980s, the party’s response was to form a circular firing...

The End of Politics begins as a fierce polemic against the steady growth of western states and their indebtedness. Its main contention, that the traditional philosophies of left and right (but mainly left) are moribund in the face of the current crisis, is argued...

Tony Blair has been advising the Labour party what to do since the 1970s. Since leaving office, having never lost an election, he continued to advise Labour, not least in his colossus of a memoir. It sold millions of copies across the world, in many languages,...

The obsession of some with the term ‘Blairite’ is Orwellian in its ability to shut down debate before it has started In a recent lecture on ‘the good society’, by way of Louis Althusser, Milan Kundera, TH Green, John Ruskin, William Morris and Dylan Thomas, Jon...