As Labour’s replacement for a party conference ‘Labour Connected’ meets online, Mark Perryman reflects on what’s Left of Keir Starmer. ‘Labour is haemorrhaging Left-wing activists. Will it survive?’ This was…
21 Sep, 2020
Corbynism
03 Sep, 2020
Working together or falling apart?
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party was undoubtedly controversial. But it shouldn't be overlooked that under his tenure, membership grew to levels not seen for decades, the party was…
11 Apr, 2020
Corbyn, it wasn’t all bad
I was ready to let the Corbyn era drift off into the sunset and enjoy the fond memories of some and the disdain of others. That was until I read Sarah…
08 Jan, 2020
Against Voluntarism
Doing more, much more, of the same won’t be enough – it’s time for a different, better Corbynism. Hastings and Rye, the final Sunday of the campaign. For the fourth…
18 Feb, 2019
Labour split: not a blip, but a symptom
The announcement today that seven Labour MPs have renounced the whip and are setting up as independents comes as no surprise. The seven spoke of their personal reasons for leaving…
27 Sep, 2018
Could Corbyn’s Labour be the future? A work in progress, but now imaginable
Labour conference this week is an important staging post in the new Corbyn-led, energised mass party - not just the biggest in Britain, but bigger than all the other party…