European vote sees electorate again dividing into Leave and Remain, as the Labour leader remained on the fence.
- Professor of Political History, University of Nottingham
Momentum’s position is increasingly out of step with the Labour leadership’s on this issue.
As a left-wing rallying cry, this account of the 1819 massacre in Manchester fails to rouse the inner revolutionary.
The event, which runs parallel to the official Labour conference, is the engine of Corbyn’s social movement.
Managing day-to-day politics and radically transforming the world is a big task.
The Conservatives are in disarray, but they seem to be clinging on regardless. The question is how to unseat them next time.
Sceptical MPs are already agreeing to return to the fold.
Jeremy Corbyn pledges to give the power back to the people, but history suggests they might not actually want it.
In TV and film the British monarchy have never had it so good – it’s about time something took a more sceptical eye.
Things could only get better. Or could they?
Why do people continue to think the former Foreign Secretary would have made a better leader than his brother, Ed?
Ed Miliband’s many Blairite critics have formed an orderly queue to tell us why he lost.
In an uninspiring campaign, the comedian’s volte face means a lot to Ed Miliband.
Channel 4’s dramatisation of the five days in May 2010 when the Coalition was formed is almost revolutionarily empathetic with our political leaders.
It may be all Cornish landscapes, bizarre regional accents and heaving bosoms, but in its day the BBC drama was actually pretty radical.
Armando Iannucci, the man who gave us The Thick of It and Veep, has just called on Britons to make sure they vote in the upcoming general election. Iannucci points out, rightly, that politicians only notice…
In the same way a B-movie actor might stand next to George Clooney, hoping some of his Hollywood magic will rub off, Boris Johnson has written a biography of Winston Churchill. In The Churchill Factor…
Not all British period dramas are the same. They don’t all involve servants faithfully tendering to lovable members of the aristocracy. Many do, of course, especially given the commercial imperative of…
In a production office far, far away someone has decided to turn the 1970s BBC sitcom Dad’s Army into a film. Its cast features some of Britain’s finest acting talent – and Catherine Zeta-Jones. But this…
On the morning of October 16 1964, Harold Wilson entered Downing Street as prime minister. He had just ended 13 years of Conservative rule – one that had been predicted to last a generation just four years…
In a largely unknown aspect of the 1984-5 Miners’ strike, gay activists from London gave much needed help to an embattled South Wales community. Their story is told in Pride, a film released in the UK…
Most of the reactions to the death of Tony Benn have focused on the man who turned left in the 1970s, embraced union militancy and became “the most dangerous man in Britain”. That was, however, Benn Mark…
As Britain starts four years of commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Blackadder Goes Forth, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1989, has, bizarrely, taken centre stage. To rather less fanfare than…
Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins has turned his gracious attentions to the state of higher education in an opinion piece. His views on the balance between teaching and research have been greeted frostily…
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