Jon Cruddas

UK Politics

A country for old men

• 07 April 2011
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Labour needs to discover a politics of tradition and English virtue, says Jon Cruddas.

Full transcript | Jon Cruddas | LJMU Roscoe Lecture | Liverpool | 3 March 2011

• 03 March 2011

"England's socialism is conservative. It is a love of home, of place and of the local."

A clear and present peril

• 23 November 2010
• 56 comments

Immigration has become the new fault line cutting across the British political landscape.

UK Politics

Osborne’s modern-day clearances

• 28 October 2010
• 53 comments

The Tories are planning to cleanse the poor from our cities. But will Labour offer a workable alternative?

UK Politics

Time for a truly English Labour Party

• 29 July 2010
• 66 comments

There is Scottish Labour and Welsh Labour but England does not have its own national Labour Party. The party must speak the language of disaffected Middle England to make its comeback.

UK Politics

Labour's Crisis

• 03 September 2009
• 3 comments

Labour is in the middle of its gravest crisis in 30 years. It needs to rediscover the radicalism that animated its founders

UK Politics

Waiting for a change of owner

• 14 June 2007

Skyrocketing fares, worsening services and government subsidies higher than ever - all prove that privatisation was a costly mistake. There has never been a better time to renationalise the railways

Politics

Driven by a wretched and outdated currency

• 13 November 2006

In the workplace many are feeling insecure, as migrant labour is used by unscrupulous employers to pull down pay. Yet the state stands by