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Power tends to corrupt, said Lord Acton. This two line quote, the second line being “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is far more well known, a hundred and fifty years later,...
Is competence enough? Keir Starmer has been helped by the coronavirus crisis. It has made the government look bad; it has helped him look serious; and it has suppressed dissent...
Ed Dorrell, The Independent It seems that Labour has decided that if it wants to win the next election, and not just target a hung parliament, it must focus...
Louis Staples, The Independent Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump is encouraging for people on the left. Democrats have shown that an energised and angry right can be beaten...
Sunny Hundal, The Independent I’m on what we call the ‘soft left’ of the Labour party. I marched against the Iraq war and believe that Blair’s government didn’t challenge...
Jess Phillips, The Independent I’ve been to the year 3000 and the Labour Party leadership race is still ongoing. It took me a total of 30 seconds to cast...
The gloves are finally coming off in Labour’s long leadership fight as it reaches the critical stage. Ballot forms have started to go out to Labour’s 580,000 members. Most of...
Stuff can happen in election campaigns, and the Labour leadership contest is not yet at the halfway point — but Keir Starmer is in a strong position and party members...
Jess Phillips more or less announced her campaign for the Labour leadership was over in her article on Sunday, in which she admitted she had performed badly in the hustings...
We had our fun. It is back to boring normal politics now. Tedious things such as a government with a standard majority in the House of Commons trying to...
