Roy Hattersley

Articles by Roy Hattersley

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Labour needs a rethink

  • 28 September 2010
  • 15 comments

Labour has become a party that is doctrine-free. In the absence of an ethical framework, it needs an injection of new intellectualism to lead it back to power.

A Journey

  • 10 September 2010
  • 10 comments

Blair’s apologia takes him on a journey from future Labour leader to freelance statesman. Sadly, it confirms that his decent instincts were undone by too little self-doubt.

The Alastair Campbell Diaries

  • 14 June 2010

Alastair Campbell may have a high regard for his own abilities, but it is clear that New Labour could not have won the 1997 election without him.

Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It

  • 16 April 2010
  • 1 comment

Phillip Blond understands the crisis we’re in – but he deludes himself that anti-state ideas are the remedy.

Politics is not a parlour game

  • 25 March 2010
  • 2 comments

Roy Hattersley responds to Anthony Barnett’s New Statesman essay “Hang ’em”.

The End of the Party: the Rise and Fall of New Labour

  • 11 March 2010

Andrew Rawnsley approaches great political issues as if he were writing a gossip column.

Even Abraham Lincoln saw red

  • 25 February 2010
  • 1 comment

Andrew Rawnsley's book has reduced what should be a debate about great issues into a gossip column.

Coalition could make Labour work

  • 10 December 2009

Proportional representation would free Labour to be radical again

A Fortunate Life

  • 07 May 2009

Last among equals

  • 26 March 2009

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Allen Lane, 352pp, £20

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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