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John Rentoul, The Independent The Green Party has been vindicated. Not only did it win four seats at the general election, which was four times as many as I...
One of my vivid memories of working in TV was the moment when John Habgood, the Archbishop of York, responded to a question from Jonathan Dimbleby in a BBC On...
Keir Starmer keeps telling us what he believes, often at length. There was the 14,000-word Fabian pamphlet 18 months ago. In the past week he has given a speech about...
Anne McHardy, The Independent I have torn up my Labour Party membership, having joined in 1964 when I came to London to university. I decided to leave in August...
Ryan Coogan, The Independent The political right has always granted itself this totally undeserved monopoly on the notion of “common sense”. presenting itself as the side of the political...
Ryan Coogan, The Independent The whole notion of the “Labour right” is such a strange contradiction in terms. There’s no “Tory left”. There isn’t an expectation that a certain...
Ryan Coogan, The Independent The idea of “supporting” a political party has become something of a quaint relic of a bygone civil discourse. Conversations about politics are now often...
Phil Wilson, The Independent Labour’s problem is twofold. Firstly, the people may favour a different direction for the country, but they don’t believe Labour is the right vehicle to...
John Rentoul, The Indepenent I have been reading Alastair Campbell’s diaries of a lost world. The latest volume, number eight, covers the five years after Labour lost power, from...
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,...
