Labour Party
Tom Watson’s strange journey from Brownite hit man to Labour’s last peacemaker
Last week I was talking to a member of the shadow cabinet about Jeremy Corbyn’s impending victory as Labour leader.…
Why would Jeremy Corbyn want to be credible when he can be incredible?
In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the…
Tristram Hunt’s diary: The rainy glories of Devon – and a cold political climate
‘Devon, Devon, Devon/ Where it rains six days out of seven.’ Nothing beats a British seaside holiday. And north Devon…
Jeremy Corbyn and what a real plebeian revolt looks like
Last week, guru Corbyn was invited to reflect on the 2,500-year-old Roman origins of the republicanism to which he is…
Pig-ignorant click activists are in charge now. Jeremy Corbyn’s success proves it
Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…
A guide to Jeremy Corbyn's Britain (the Tories will be in charge)
How do you solve a problem like Jezza?
How Labour can depose Jeremy Corbyn
Labour’s centrist forces could take years to recover. Or forever
How to tell if Jeremy Corbyn is a proper republican
True to his antique, bearded ideology, guru Corbyn is a ‘republican’, a form of government invented 2,500 years ago. ‘Republic’…
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…
Labour's already running out of time to regain its lost voters
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
Labour always lurches left when it loses. But this time is worse
The party always swings left after defeats. But this time is worse
Jeremy Corbyn’s debt to Silvio Berlusconi
I’m going off Jeremy Corbyn. He seems more and more pleased with himself by the minute. But I understand why…
Why Liz Kendall isn't close to qualifying as 'Taliban New Labour'
Toxic virus or Taleban: it’s funny how the mild-mannered Liz Kendall has attracted for her Blairite associations the most violently…
Does Labour need a new name? Let’s ask Plato
In order to make a sensible choice of new leader, the Labour party is trying to work out what its…
How Jeremy Corbyn could destroy the Tories (yes, really)
‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…
Whoever wins the Labour leadership, Blairism is at death’s door
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
Jeremy Corbyn won’t destroy Labour. But he might yet destroy the country
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…
The SNP surge at Westminster might just accidentally save the Union
There are few quicker ways to annoy an MP than to suggest that they are on holiday when the House…
Why I was right to vote for Jeremy Corbyn
Is the ‘Tories for Corbyn’ campaign politics at its most infantile? As one of the few conservative commentators willing to…
Unions vs workers – this is David Cameron’s chance to strike back
Trade unions have ceased to serve working people. It’s time to act against them
The humiliation that turned Andy Burnham from Blairite to union man
Andy Burnham is the Labour establishment’s choice as the next party leader. So why does he feel like an outsider?
What kind of life-form boasts that it can ‘speak human’?
The next Labour leader will have to be able to speak human, said a piece in the Observer. This, it…
Labour’s campaign was fine. It’s the party that Britain rejected
Patrick Wintour is one of the best political editors around. For the Guardian he’s been for decades a cool and…
The secret heart of London conservatism…
There is a dive near St James’s which could claim to be the epicentre of international reaction. It is also…
Why is Len McCluskey paying Carter-Ruck to threaten me?
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
