Labour leadership contest 2015
Diary
With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…
Barometer
It’s their party Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest with 60% of the vote among four candidates in the…
Labour’s lost thinker
Jon Cruddas is still looking for ways to renew his party.They’re unlikely to please his new leader
How Gordon Brown’s hit man became Labour’s peacemaker
Last week I was talking to a member of the shadow cabinet about Jeremy Corbyn’s impending victory as Labour leader.…
Credible
In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the…
Diary
‘Devon, Devon, Devon/ Where it rains six days out of seven.’ Nothing beats a British seaside holiday. And north Devon…
Corbyn and the plebs
Last week, guru Corbyn was invited to reflect on the 2,500-year-old Roman origins of the republicanism to which he is…
The green ink brigade is now running the show
Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…
The Corbyn enigma
How do you solve a problem like Jezza?
Surviving the purge
Labour’s centrist forces could take years to recover. Or forever
Just how republican is Jeremy Corbyn?
True to his antique, bearded ideology, guru Corbyn is a ‘republican’, a form of government invented 2,500 years ago. ‘Republic’…
Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic
MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power have you…
Bisexuality is now everywhere (and nowhere)
I’m not aware of knowing many bisexual people. Or indeed, off the top of my head, any bisexual people. Which…
Diary
Should we have celebrated VJ Day? Hearing the hieratic tones of the Emperor Hirohito on Radio 4 the other day,…
Barometer
Caught working The government announced a crackdown on illegal workers. How many illegal workers are caught in Britain? — From…
Time is running out for Labour
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
Labour’s losing instinct
The party always swings left after defeats. But this time is worse
Taleban
Toxic virus or Taleban: it’s funny how the mild-mannered Liz Kendall has attracted for her Blairite associations the most violently…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
Does Labour still not get it?
You wait ages for a Labour leadership contest, then five come along at once. In the past few days, nominations…
Speak human
The next Labour leader will have to be able to speak human, said a piece in the Observer. This, it…
Diary
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
Goulash and whiplash
Ed is a plank. He was always a plank — and now he is in Ibiza being a plank. Plankety–plankety-plank:…
Diary
Andrew Marr 22 August 2015 9:00 am
This is the Corbyn summer. From the perspective of a short holiday, my overwhelming feeling is one of despair at…