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Dennis Potter’s Nigel Barton Plays, 50 years old this month, are the original satires on the vileness of modern politics.
Labour candidate Jim McMahon wins with a comfortable majority – without really mentioning his party leader at all.
Hilary Benn’s powerful intervention is bound to have some people thinking about the future of the party.
The shadow foreign secretary certainly impressed when debating intervention in Syria – but he gave an odd account of the Spanish Civil War.
Moderates could try to change the rules or seek another leadership contest, but the left has this one locked up for now.
The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years. Now his party appears to be striking back.
An almighty row has broken out about whether MPs should be whipped when the time comes to decide on airstrikes.
Corbyn can’t replicate his wider popularity among MPs. Will it cost him?
The Labour leader is hoping to recruit a new generation of activists in one of his party’s strongest cities.
Pointless pickets, factional infighting, grandstanding support for the oppressed – haven’t we been here before?
When it was announced that Seumas Milne, the Guardian columnist and associate editor, had been appointed as Labour’s executive director of communications and strategy, sections of the press were vitriolic…
It’s unfair to call Lord Adonis a political ‘Judas’. He’s a policy specialist who has always aimed for the centre ground.
After being called the “most dangerous man in British politics”, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky…
The new Labour leader wants to build on new support that swept him to power.
One of Jeremy Corbyn’s picks for his economic advisory team is doubtful about the viability of a Robin Hood tax, but sees little obstacle to public ownership in the banking sector.
Under enormous pressure from friends and enemies alike, Labour’s new leader attempted to walk a desperately difficult line.
Corbyn appears to see public relations as the pioneers of the profession in the UK saw it, as an add-on to civic society.
Can the party remember what it stands for at its annual conference?
It seems Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow chancellor knew better than to get bogged down in specifics so soon.
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