UK Politics Labour faces a painful reckoning: those who enabled Corbynism can’t be trusted with its future No other Labour leader has sympathised with the IRA or similar terrorist organisations, much less had truck with anti-Semitism. By Vernon Bogdanor
Books The Confidence Trap by David Runciman: Are we too complacent about democracy? By Vernon Bogdanor
Britain’s First Labour Government by John Shepherd and Keith Laybourn: Ghetto politics The first Labour government was formed in January 1924 after the only real threeparty election in Britain in the… By Vernon Bogdanor
Half-echoes of the past Blue Labour is conservative, but about a society that no longer exists – or never existed. Ed Miliband should… By Vernon Bogdanor
Why the Lib Dems want electoral reform When the Liberal Party controlled power, it opposed proportional representation. Now, the Lib Dems h By Vernon Bogdanor
I believe in yesterday The history of the recent past is more popular with readers than ever – and just as well, because… By Vernon Bogdanor
End of the party Unlike the Profumo affair, which had no lasting significance, the scandal over MPs’ expenses is the By Vernon Bogdanor
Loosening Labour’s golden straitjacket Economic crisis presents opportunities as well as stark threats for social democracy, writes the Oxf By Vernon Bogdanor