With the publication of Jon Cruddas’ latest report into why Labour lost the 2015 general election and the new analysis...
With the publication of Jon Cruddas’ latest report into why Labour lost the 2015 general election and the new analysis...
A couple of years ago, scientists at University College, London discovered that low expectations are the key to...
As I read this collection of essays on the life of Harold Wilson I became acutely aware of the particular influence...
On Easter Sunday, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, the Telegraph published an interview with Tony Blair...
At a glance, Labour’s road to a majority in 2015 seems both long and steep. We stand today almost four years on from...
Roger Liddle sees himself as an evangelist for Europe. This book’s target reader, he says at the beginning, is ‘the...
Patrick Diamond’s excellent book is a fascinating account of New Labour’s approach to government written by one of...
The good news: it was a speech Tony Blair could easily have given. The semi-approving invocation of Margaret Thatcher,...
It was the year Abba’s Waterloo won the Eurovision song contest; Suzi Quatro, Alvin Stardust and the Osmonds topped...
Why does Benefits Street make us so angry? Yes, it exploits people, but so do such Reithian delights as ‘My Daughter...
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the close of the Edwardian era, when the Great War broke out in 1914; the...
Rows about spin, concerns about the centralising of decision-making and over powerful aides. Not a new book about...