Prospect of early poll should worry Labour

The Chinese general Sun Tzu once wrote that “the good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.” The Conservatives might be about to put such advice into practice. The Times reported...

Labour and Trident

In recent weeks it has been difficult to think of the Labour Party without thinking of Karl Marx. This is not to endorse tabloid sensationalism or suggest that the party’s next conference will be spent discussing the finer points of historical materialism, but rather...

Spinners and Losers: Assessing the Labour Reshuffle

Even before Christmas it was widely reported that Jeremy Corbyn was planning a ‘revenge reshuffle’. Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn seemed the most likely target given his support for action against IS in Syria, but Chief Whip Rosie Winterton and her deputies Alan...