The Union was originally held together not only by money but amnesia of historical differences. Scotland's history is that of an entirely different relationship with the European continent, and … (View Post)

I agree with both you and kinabalu here. An anachronistic copy of New Labour and its ideology is clearly not the answer, but the British left urgently needs a new narrative of optimism. Starmer hasn&… (View Post)

This can't work, because it will just result in an acrimonious split, which would then harm a PR coalition. Labour's only realistic options are a consensual centre-left program, or a semi-d… (View Post)

Wilson and his many types of aspiration, in other words. I've flogged the theme to death, but culturally, too, he also had as much an ear for the Beatles as Bolsover. (View Post)

With Sandbrook, he's a better journalist and writer than he is a thinker, on the whole. Some of his accounts of the period are quite unashamedly and obviously skewed, other parts quite colourful… (View Post)