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The Tory conference reflects the dismal state of the party
IF I had to sum up the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week in a single word, it would be “frightening”. A major British political party has been...
How the Corbynites want to reverse the 1980s
PAUL MASON, a journalist turned Labour Party activist, was very much in evidence at the Labour conference in Brighton this week, competing with the Guardian’s Owen Jones for the...
An evening with Momentum at the Labour Party conference
I VENTURED into Momentum’s “A World Transformed” jamboree—a sort of parallel conference running alongside the main Labour Party conference—with some nervousness. Momentum has a reputation for playing hardball: they...
The Labour Party is in jubilant mood as it meets for its annual conference
ABOUT half-way through “Jaws”, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster, Sheriff Brody (Roy Schneider) finally catches sight of the giant shark that has been wreaking havoc in the high seas off...
Whatever she may say, Theresa May won’t fight the next election
ASKED in Japan whether she intends to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party in 2019 Theresa May replied that, on the contrary, she plans to lead her...
The politics of a tragedy
WE USE the phrase “death-trap” all too lightly. But a death-trap is exactly what the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in West London became when it caught fire in the early...
The lesson from tonight’s astonishing results: campaigns matter
POLITICAL scientists are often sniffy about campaigns. They think that campaigns have at best a minimal impact on election results and sometimes have none whatsoever. Alan Abramowitz, an American...
Unpicking the Corbynist manifesto
BRITISH election campaigns are usually carefully choreographed affairs. They are short and sharp: just a few weeks of formal campaigning compared with America’s year or so. And they are...
