In order to make a sensible choice of new leader, the Labour party is trying to work out what its ‘core values’ are. Perhaps it would be helpful to begin by thinking about its core name: does ‘Labour’ still correlate with the party’s function any more?
In Plato’s dialogue Cratylus, Socrates and chums discuss the significance of the names we apply to the world around us.
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