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You say you want a revolution
Gerry Hassan reports on a year in the life of Scottish politics
  Mar/Apr 2008
The red-green show must go on
Leonie Cooper on why Boris and the BNP must be kept out
  Mar/Apr 2008
Respect: the end
Andrew Coates tells a tale of opportunism, egos and splits
  Mar/Apr 2008
Passive citizenship
Mike Davis discusses the malaise of democracy in Britain
  Jan/Feb 2008
Party democracy: renewal or reprise?
Ann Black fears warm words on accountability will not be matched by actions
  Nov/Dec 2007
Gordon Brown's first 100 days
Peter Kenyon asks, Are you listening, Mr Brown?
  Sept/Oct 2007
Scotland - Polling blunders
Mary Southcott sees the problem in the counting not the voting
  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?
  Jul/Aug 2007
Is the future Brown?
Trevor Fisher ponders the danger of a monochrome economy.
  Mar/Apr 2007
All the wrong signals
Christian Wolmar finds a green hole in Labour's transport plans.
  Mar/Apr 2007
The instinctive politician
Don Flynn dissects the Blair legacy.
  Mar/Apr 2007
Red to be green
Anna Bluston on why blues can't be true greens.
  Jan/Feb 2007
Deal or no deal
As Northern Ireland moves closer to the endgame Kevin Meagher says Labour should call Paisley’s bluff.
  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.
  July/Aug 2006
Devolution delivers
Labour’s first minister Jack McConnell on devolved government in the 300 year union.
  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

  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.
  Nay/June 2006
After Blair, opportunity knocks
Blair must go now to avoid the calamity of a Cameron government argues Peter Rowlands
  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
  Jan/Feb 2006
Party tricks
Michael Crick exposes dirty work at the cross roads
  Nov/Dec 2005
Fears of a brave new world
Catherine Fieschi assesses the threast from the far right
  Nov/Dec 2005
New kind of politics
Pete Smith on the death of the parties
  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
  July/Aug 2005
The cult of newness
Jon Cruddas on how new Labour’s neglect of working class communities feeds the fascist right
  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.
  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.
  May/June 2005
Ending the presumption of guilt
Doug Jewell and Mhairi McGhee outline the case against Labour’s anti-terror measures.
  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
  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
  Mar/Apr 2005
Death of a party
David Floyd smirks as the Tories hit the buffers
  Mar/Apr 2005
Crazy tactics
Vote for the party you want to win, says Nick Parrott
  Mar/Apr 2005
Why aren't they voting?
Gavin Lewis on how new Labour acolytes in the media keep the drum beating for Blair.
  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.
  Jan/Feb 2005
NHS-PLC
Allyson Pollock assesses the state of the NHS.
  Nov/Dec 2004
Between war and peace
Paul Dixon on the painful leaking of support for power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
  Jul/Aug 2004
Thought we'd got rid of her
David Floyd on Thatcher's influence on new Labour.
  May/June 2004
Higher priorities
Chris Isaac argues that the government has found the fairest way to increase university funding.
  May/June 2004
Wasted opportunity
Nick Parrott says the government has missed its big chance to make higher education more equal.
  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.
  Mar/Apr 2004
Aid to fraudsters
ID cards mean more dangers than benefits, argues Neil Gerrard MP.
  Sept/Oct 2003

New suffragettes
75th anniversary highlights voting reform case, says Mary Southcott.

  Sept/Oct 2003
Power to the people
Regional government must have its day, writes Kevin Meagher.
  Sept/Oct 2003
Moving beyond class
A disoriented Dan Elton finds the Tories have got it right on higher education.
  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?
  July/Aug 2003
A stake for youth
It's time to end the political limbo for youth, says Steve Allen
  May/June 2003
The end of the Blair presidency?
Pete Smith on Tony Blair.
  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.
  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.
  May/June 2003
No Minister
Dave Lister explores the issues behind Estelle Morris' resignation.
  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'.
  Jan/Feb 2003
Quality Streets
Andrews Stevens looks for excellence in local democracy.
  Nov/Dec 2002
Train strains
Railway politics in Britain have never been more interesting than today, says Paul Salveson.
  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.
  Sept/Oct 2002
Prime ministerial power
Pete Smith on the collapse of constitutional reform
  Mar/April 2002
Orwell's eccentric socialism
Ben Pimlott looks back at the political life and times of Orwell
  July/Aug 2001
Handing over the keys
Dave Wetzel wants transport kept under control
  May/June 2001
Not frightening the horses
Trevor Fisher interviews Will Hutton on key issues to target
  Jan/Feb 2000
The death of politics
Ben Pimlott laments the demise of political debate
  Sept/Oct 2000
Politics in a network age
Rosamund Stock on a structure for democratic participation
  Sept/Oct 2000
Blair's Anarcho-Socialism
Frank Lee on the icon of the left, the other Blair, George Orwell
  July/Aug 2000
Jekyll and Hyde Parliament
Gerry Hassan wonders which way Scotland will travel
  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
  Nov/Dec 2000
Rediscovering our libertarian roots
Peter Hain on a libertarian socialist framework for the Third Way
  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
  1999
The contribution of radical Christians to ethical socialism
Chris Bryant
  1999
Count the protest votes
Ken Coates MEP
  1999