Despite winning a huge majority in parliament a few months prior, Prime Minister Keir Starmer went into last month's Labour Party conference facing slumping party morale and growing unpopularity. With…
11 Oct, 2024
Labour
02 Oct, 2024
Taken as Red
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18 Sep, 2024
Labour’s ‘no-choice’ narrative exposes the contradictions of its governing project
Constantly emphasising your passive inability to make choices feeds conspiracy and fuels disaffection – so why does Labour under Keir Starmer keep returning to this favoured excuse? When Foreign Secretary…
10 May, 2024
John Smith – Remembering A Great Labour Leader
John Smith, who sadly died thirty years ago, is paradoxically a past Labour leader who is both highly revered but also often overlooked. He held the leadership for just under…
20 Mar, 2024
Scotland’s centre-left politics and the dynamics of the Labour-SNP divide
UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
28 Feb, 2024
50 years on: Lessons from the February 1974 election
On this day half a century ago, Britain went to the polls. The political script today isn’t the same today, but lessons can still be learnt. Back then the Tories had…
27 Feb, 2024
Compass members on creating the blueprint for a new economy
Developing an alternative for the economy is essential for creating a new settlement and a ‘good society’. Britain needs a fundamental change in direction. The post -1980, pro-inequality, pro-market ideology…
06 Nov, 2023
Why a hung parliament could be a blessing in disguise for Labour
In the end, the legacy of New Labour was mixed. International development, the minimum wage and record investment in public services, to name a few achievements, were all important and…
16 Oct, 2023
Uncertainty and shifting alliances: What lies ahead for New Zealand politics?
There were a total of 17 parties and 449 candidates standing in the 2023 New Zealand General Election. I went to bed on Saturday night at midnight, feeling quite sick…
13 Oct, 2023
Is Scottish Labour back – and does it have a future?
Scottish Labour and British Labour are on a roll. It might not be seen as a positive by many in the SNP and for independence, but this is good news…
04 Oct, 2023
The speech Keir Starmer should give at Labour conference
‘Conference – We come, hopefully, to the end of this Conservative government, marked by thirteen years of cruel austerity cuts, greed and cronyism, moral indifference, climate neglect and economic failure.…
05 Sep, 2023
Rethinking pluralism and discipline in the Labour Party
We seem, in Labour, to be making life difficult for ourselves at the moment - so it might be helpful to pull back on the focus a little and try…