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Securonomics is the right plan. How should it be sold?

Keir Starmer's Thatcher Problem

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This week has shown how dangerous a directionless government is

The Covid Inquiry, the news agenda and the election

Labour makes the story about itself

The right are in crisis. Can the left just enjoy it?

Why public figures need good friends

Venom

The morning after problem

How long can Labour members stay happily unhappy?

How could the Tories win?

In our paranoid age, did X come before Q?

Sunak is a loser. But the best loser the Tories have

Small change? The generous and ungenerous interpretations of Labour's policy stance

Prurience and Puritanism, humanity and frailty

Parties and Members. Rules and Punishments

Reassurance and change: Why Hope can't feel like a second term priority

Were they lying then or are they lying now?

Invite your friends to read Hard Thinking on the Soft Left

The scorpion is sunk. His venom still poisons the body politic

Disgrace never dies

Starmer and the Spirit of '45

2017 and all that

Call the police?

Fast politics and slow politics

NECessary duties

The new politics of race in the UK

The new union movement

Join me on Notes

A Bank Holiday Treat! My long ago attempt at a Morning Call email

On that Labour ad

Starmer must offer a government of centre left realism

The five groups Labour have to win, keep or not scare

What the Lineker Moment Means

When it comes to Partygate, there are no Gray areas

The political calculations in Islington North

Whatever happened to Conservatism?

You are not 'politically homeless'

Let's Fix Britain

What do you want from me?