| British politics |
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Date |
You say you want a revolution
Gerry Hassan reports on a year in the life of Scottish politics |
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
The red-green show must go on
Leonie Cooper on why Boris and the BNP must be kept out
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
Respect: the end
Andrew Coates tells a tale of opportunism, egos and splits |
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Mar/Apr 2008 |
Passive citizenship
Mike Davis discusses the malaise of democracy in Britain
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Jan/Feb 2008 |
Party democracy: renewal or reprise?
Ann Black fears warm words on accountability will not be matched by actions |
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Nov/Dec 2007 |
Gordon Brown's first 100 days
Peter Kenyon asks, Are you listening, Mr Brown?
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Sept/Oct 2007 |
Scotland - Polling blunders
Mary Southcott sees the problem in the counting not the voting
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Jul/Aug 2007 |
The Pound in your pocket
With a downturn beckoning Frank Lee asks what fool will take on the job at No 11?
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Jul/Aug 2007 |
Is the future Brown?
Trevor Fisher ponders the danger of a monochrome economy. |
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
All the wrong signals
Christian Wolmar finds a green hole in Labour's transport plans.
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
The instinctive politician
Don Flynn dissects the Blair legacy.
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Mar/Apr 2007 |
Red to be green
Anna Bluston on why blues
can't be true greens. |
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Jan/Feb 2007 |
Deal or no deal
As Northern Ireland moves closer to the
endgame Kevin Meagher says Labour should call Paisley’s
bluff. |
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Nov/Dec 2006 |
Hook, line and sinker for Bush
Blair’s ditching of core Labour values
led to a series of foreign policy disasters from Iraq to Europe.
With a lameduck Bush, David Clark explains it’s just
possible a Brown leadership might rethink. |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Devolution delivers
Labour’s first minister Jack McConnell
on devolved government in the 300 year union. |
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July/Aug 2006 |
The rupture between Westminster and reality
Jon Cruddas on why more New Labour solutions
are likely to further fuel the far right |
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July/Aug 2006 |
Back to the future
Pete Smith sees lessons for Labour in the
Cameron makeover of the Tories towards a more traditional pragmatism. |
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Nay/June 2006 |
After Blair, opportunity knocks
Blair must go now to avoid the calamity
of a Cameron government argues Peter Rowlands |
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Mar/Apr 2006 |
Education Blue Paper
Dave Lister is not surprised the Tories back Ruth Kelly’s White Paper, much was in their manifesto not Labour’s |
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Jan/Feb 2006 |
Party tricks
Michael Crick exposes dirty work at the cross roads |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
Fears of a brave new world
Catherine Fieschi assesses the threast from the far right |
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Nov/Dec 2005 |
New
kind of politics
Pete Smith on the death of the parties |
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Sept/Oct 2005 |
The forward march of New Labour halted?
As Blairism unravels, incremental steps
within organic movements are the way to start building the
alternative, suggests Don Flynn |
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July/Aug 2005 |
The cult of newness
Jon Cruddas on how new Labour’s neglect
of working class communities feeds the fascist right |
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July/Aug 2005 |
The state Will Hutton is in
Frank Lee considers the political evolution
of the former cheerleader of stakeholder capitalism – from
social-democrat to liberal-democrat. |
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May/June 2005 |
Doing Mrs Thatcher proud
New Labour’s embrace of home ownership marks an end to collectivism
with the real victims being lower income households argues Duncan Bowie. |
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May/June 2005 |
Ending the presumption of guilt
Doug Jewell and Mhairi McGhee outline the case against Labour’s anti-terror
measures. |
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May/June 2005 |
A place in history… for
the Party
Peter Kenyon reflects on the election
campaign that gave Labour a third term and left its leader
increasingly isolated in his own party |
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May/Jun 2005 |
On the inside
looking out
Peter Kenyon reports on the Chancellor's efforts to reposition himself inside
the Labour Party ahead of leadership contest |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Death of a party
David Floyd smirks as the Tories hit the buffers |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Crazy tactics
Vote for the party you want to win, says Nick Parrott |
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Mar/Apr 2005 |
Why aren't they voting?
Gavin Lewis on how new Labour acolytes in the media
keep the drum beating for Blair. |
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Jan/Feb 2005 |
UKIP – a wake up call
Tim Pendry suggests that UKIP is a lesson on what
can happen when a Government declares cultural war on a section
of its people. |
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Jan/Feb 2005 |
NHS-PLC
Allyson Pollock assesses the state of the NHS. |
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Nov/Dec 2004 |
Between war and peace
Paul Dixon on the painful leaking of support for power-sharing
in Northern Ireland. |
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Jul/Aug 2004 |
Thought we'd got
rid of her
David Floyd on Thatcher's influence on new Labour. |
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May/June 2004 |
Higher priorities
Chris Isaac argues that the government has found the fairest way to increase
university funding. |
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May/June 2004 |
Wasted opportunity
Nick Parrott says the government has missed its big chance to make higher education
more equal. |
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May/June 2004 |
Time to end the same old show
RMT union expulsion from Labour is but a symptom of
a deeper malaise facing the party in Scotland, argues Gerry
Hassan. |
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Mar/Apr 2004 |
Aid to fraudsters
ID cards mean more dangers than benefits, argues Neil Gerrard MP. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
New suffragettes
75th anniversary highlights voting reform case, says Mary Southcott. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
Power to the people
Regional government must have its day, writes Kevin Meagher. |
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Sept/Oct 2003 |
Moving beyond class
A disoriented Dan Elton finds the Tories have got it right on higher education. |
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July/Aug 2003 |
Dog eat dog asylum
system
John Sunderland asks if ‘Super Sangattes’ can be the UK’s new
vision on asylum in Europe? |
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July/Aug 2003 |
A stake for youth
It's time to end the political limbo for youth, says Steve Allen |
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May/June 2003 |
The end of the Blair presidency?
Pete Smith on Tony Blair. |
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May/June 2003 |
Atheists, anarchists
and Muslims unite
A different coalition has emerged on the streets of Britain in opposition
to the Iraq war. But Adam Riaz Khan argues that the left and Muslims must
learn to build on their shared anti-capitalism. |
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May/June 2003 |
The politics of punishment
Jock Young and Roger Mathews examine the contradictions
of Labour’s penal policy and detect signs of change. |
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May/June 2003 |
No Minister
Dave Lister explores
the issues behind Estelle Morris' resignation. |
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Jan/Feb 2003 |
Son of Star Wars
The US has now requested British co-operation on Missile
Defence. Malcolm Savidge analyses the Government's response
in its 'public discussion paper'.
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Jan/Feb 2003 |
Quality Streets
Andrews Stevens looks for excellence in local democracy. |
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Nov/Dec 2002 |
Train strains
Railway politics in Britain have never been more interesting
than today, says Paul Salveson. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
New Model Health Service
Behind the Chancellor's £6.1 billion Rosamund Stock
finds the idea of patient choice a destructive plan
for the NHS. |
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Sept/Oct 2002 |
Prime ministerial power
Pete Smith on the collapse of constitutional reform |
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Mar/April 2002 |
Orwell's eccentric socialism
Ben Pimlott looks back at the political life and times of Orwell |
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July/Aug 2001 |
Handing over the keys
Dave Wetzel wants transport kept under control |
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May/June 2001 |
Not frightening the horses
Trevor Fisher interviews Will Hutton on key issues to target |
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Jan/Feb 2000 |
The death of politics
Ben Pimlott laments the demise of political debate |
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Sept/Oct 2000 |
Politics in a network age
Rosamund Stock on a structure for democratic participation |
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Sept/Oct 2000 |
Blair's Anarcho-Socialism
Frank Lee on the icon of the left, the other Blair, George Orwell |
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July/Aug 2000 |
Jekyll and Hyde Parliament
Gerry Hassan wonders which way Scotland will travel |
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July/Aug 2000 |
Decision making for the intelligent society
Rosamund Stock on involving people in the democratic proces |
|
1999 |
Behind closed doors
Maurice Frankel on Labour's climb-down on open government |
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Nov/Dec 2000 |
Rediscovering our libertarian roots
Peter Hain on a libertarian socialist framework for the Third
Way |
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July/Aug 2000 |
A new era of Scottish politics
Gerry Hassan charts the stormy Scottish parliamentary seas |
|
1999 |
The Third Way - Back to the future?
Pete Smith says the left should not spurn liberal radicalism
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1999 |
The contribution of radical Christians
to ethical socialism
Chris Bryant |
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1999 |
Count the protest votes
Ken Coates MEP |
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1999 |
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