Whether intentionally or not, for the past 100 or so years the Labour Party has existed to prove that Karl Marx was wrong. Thanks to the NHS, employment rights and state administered redistribution, workers now enjoy a better place in…
As keen viewers of the Parliament Channel will know, there is no constitutional…
We’ll start with the philosopher and end with the politician. The ultimate defender of representative democracy was Edmund Burke. He argued that every MP should exercise “mature judgment” on behalf of their electors, and an MP betrays that duty “if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” In other…
Jeremy Corbyn is in a pickle. He was elected by a landslide on a radical left-wing platform, but many of his trademark policies, including nuclear disarmament, have been blocked by MPs convinced they’re electoral suicide.
As amusing as watching “anarchists against the cuts” at the front gate may have been, the really interesting thing about the Tory conference was happening on the main stage. Since we know the Prime Minister’s standing down before the next election, the race to succeed him has begun.