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A week to remember?
- Richard Reeves
- 17 April 2008
- 8 comments
Faced with an almost unprecedented drop in popularity, some in the Labour Party are starting to think the unthinkable: what would follow election defeat?
Mr Brown at your service
- Rosa Prince
- 10 April 2008
- 3 comments
The polls are not good for Labour. The latest advice to the Prime Minister is to show that he identifies with voters. First, though, he must learn how to speak to people worried about the rising cost of everyday items
The end of history
- Martin Bright
- 27 March 2008
- 68 comments
The twin anniversaries of 1968 and 2003 remind us that the story of the left is littered with utopian failures
A Budget with looming shadows
- Martin Bright
- 13 March 2008
- 10 comments
There were no rabbits in his hat. Hanging over Darling's speech was the spectre of global economic uncertainty. Plus don't miss Donald Hirsch's analysis
It's still about child poverty
- Donald Hirsch
- 13 March 2008
- 3 comments
For ten years, Labour has been shifting resources to the least well off. Why are the poor still with us?
On enemy territory
- Martin Bright
- 06 March 2008
- 89 comments
His desire to outflank the Tories on the right has distorted Gordon Brown's thinking
Class war in the House
- Martin Bright
- 28 February 2008
- 25 comments
The Michael Martin affair has exposed a raw tribalism that still separates the two major parties
The truth is more tawdry than the lies
- Martin Bright
- 21 February 2008
- 8 comments
The so-called "Williams draft" of the notorious Iraq weapons dossier confirms at last that government spin was at the heart of the process
Lib-Lab rides again
- David Marquand
- 21 February 2008
Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots
What about the workers?
- Martin Bright
- 14 February 2008
- 9 comments
An unglamorous bill presented shortly to parliament will define the direction of the Brown government - and its approach to social justice.
