Labour Party
Imposter syndrome
Andy Burnham is the Labour establishment’s choice as the next party leader. So why does he feel like an outsider?
Speak human
The next Labour leader will have to be able to speak human, said a piece in the Observer. This, it…
Ed’s campaign was fine. The problem is his party
Patrick Wintour is one of the best political editors around. For the Guardian he’s been for decades a cool and…
Claret and blues
There is a dive near St James’s which could claim to be the epicentre of international reaction. It is also…
Len the loser
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
Why I still have a deep attachment to the BBC
After I failed my O-levels and decided to leave school, my father suggested I go to Israel to work on…
Cameron must show he’s not too posh to push
At 5.45 a.m. Lynton Crosby holds the first meeting of the day at Conservative campaign HQ. The aim is to…
Mob rules
Would-be leaders of the left are harnessing the mood of angry populism
Jews against Miliband
Labour’s leader would be the first Jewish prime minister since Disraeli – so how has he alienated so many Jewish voters?
Ed dawn
He could still win. Here’s what happens if he does
I believe in yesterday
Alan Johnson’s first volume of memoirs, This Boy, is still in the bestsellers’ list, but the Stakhanovite postman has made…
The betrayal of Wales
Devolution has left my country with catastrophic misgovernment
A bacon bap isn’t Miliband’s problem. We are
That bacon bap earlier this month was not the cause of Ed Miliband’s unpopularity. Ed Miliband’s unpopularity was the cause…
Farage the moderniser
There are many words that you might associate with Nigel Farage, but moderniser probably isn’t one. Yet the Ukip leader…
A champion of liberal reform
Roy Jenkins may have been snobbish and self-indulgent, but he was also a visionary and man of principle who would have made a good prime minister, says Philip Ziegler
The Labour party at prayer
Believe me, it’s not easy to be a Tory in today’s C of E
Labour’s fifth column
David Cameron’s government continues to subsidise its critics
An icon of our time
The Paul Flowers scandal says much about social and political priorities of modern Britain
Neither saint nor sage
The inventor of ‘doublethink’ was consistently inconsistent in his own political views, says A.N. Wilson. And no fun at all
‘You will pay’
Memories of being Ralph Miliband’s research assistant
