The Labour leadership contest is discussed as though people inside and outside the party were a different species.
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They signed up in their droves to vote in the last leadership election, but will they back Corbyn again?
It’s been hailed as the most radical course correction in Labour history. But is it?
They were, they thought, the party’s best hope – and they were humiliated. What next for the New Labour believers?
There are some important parts of Corbynomics that can offer a clear, distinctive and viable economic programme with which to confront the government.
The author of Corbynomics makes the case for studying ‘real-world’ economics.
Left-wing candidate storms to victory in first round of voting.
Elected in the party’s biggest ever wipeout, Labour’s 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.
If Labour can turn its fiasco of a leadership election into a voter registration drive, it can push back against a rigged system.
A Jeremy Corbyn victory would consolidate Euroscepticism across the British political spectrum, throwing the outcome of the forthcoming referendum into even further doubt.
His energy manifesto doesn’t present ‘old solutions to old problems’ but provocative responses to increasingly urgent challenges.
A run down of what each has to say on the top issue of the summer.
Integrating the UK’s expensive and fragmented rail network under public ownership could save hundreds of millions and also provide a better service.
Chaos over a purported leftist influx is roiling the Labour party – but the worst effects are yet to come.
If Labour really is turfing “infiltrators” out of its purportedly open leadership election, it’s only proving that moderate centrism is often no such thing.
Labour Party HQ is on red alert. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader is seen as a real and dangerous prospect by the majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Countless party grandees have…
Former PM warns of annihilation without offering a way out.
Political discussion about the arts and creative industries is famously woolly ybland, generic and interchangeable. But Corbyn cuts through this.
The emergence of ageing left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as the unlikely frontrunner in the Labour Party leadership contest signals that many British voters reject what politics has become.
For the last 30 years, politics has been dominated by a succession of bright young things. Could Corbyn change that?
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