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What if the Tories really are destroyed?
What will a Labour government be like against a tiny opposition Tory Party? Or even against an opposition that isn't Conservative?
Mar 31
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EASTER SALE
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Mar 29
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Pragmatic Values
What I think Keir Starmer - The Biography,along with Reeves' Mais Lecture, show about how Labour could govern (and what the obstacles to that might be)
Mar 24
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Emma Burnell
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The dark soul of the Tory Party isn't who you think
If you want to understand why the Tories are where they are, don't think about Anderson or Braverman. Think about Michael Gove.
Mar 17
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Emma Burnell
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Doth we protest too much?
The right to protest is under threat as never before. Which makes me want to protest more than ever. But in the melée about means are we losing a…
Mar 4
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Doth we protest too much?
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February 2024
Bad Week, Good Year
Whatever happens in Rochdale this will be a difficult week for Labour. But the sky is not falling
Feb 26
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Emma Burnell
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The Tories salt the earth
There is no moderate Tory strategy for winning the next election. Only for making life harder for everyone so Labour gets the blame.
Feb 18
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Emma Burnell
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I wish I hadn't said that...
Labour has finally put their £28bn pledge out of its misery. And added to Their 'what does Starmer stand for?' misery.
Feb 10
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Emma Burnell
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The 'golden age of politics' is a myth
Politics has never been popular, and has always changed and adapted. Nostalgia for a rose-tinted past is feeding cynicism in the here and now.
Feb 4
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January 2024
Uneasy bedfellows
What is liberalism when some of those who badge themselves this way have become so illiberal? And what is liberalism's relationship to socialism?
Jan 28
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Emma Burnell
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What does Farage want?
Does Farage want to save the Tories, take them over or destroy them and build from the ashes? And do he and his colleagues want the same thing?
Jan 21
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Emma Burnell
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No True Conservative
The purity spiral the post-Brexit Tories find themselves in is a danger to their existence. But it is also a danger to us all.
Jan 14
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