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One day quite soon someone at a petrol pump is going to get a tyre iron wrapped around their head. It will almost certainly be the middle-aged male driver of [...]

Arabs will never understand contemporary British politics unless they study the BlairiteBrownie schism. It has divided the Labour party in the late 20th century. That might sound like long ago. [...]

'Things need to be different than what they currently are, ' Derek Simpson, the general secretary of the trade union Amicus, said on the Today programme last week. This is [...]

Tony Blair did a lot less well than expected in the election. That may not be a good thing READING the mood of British voters has proved easier than predicting [...]

All things to all men Tony Blair said he would transform British politics, and has done just that. So why is Britain disappointed with him? AS THIS article went to [...]

Can the power law of theoretical physics, as outlined above by Mark Buchanan, explain the movements of opinion polls and, in particular, the sudden and unexpected collapse of Labour support [...]

Looking at the government's nightmarish predicament, one thought occurs time and again: that new Labour's chickens are coming home to roost. The travails over donations link in turn to the […]

The transformation of the phrase 'right-wing' from a clear description of a set of political values into a term of abuse seems now to be complete. Long used by screeching [...]

As the anxiety election begins in earnest, Labour is going back to its roots. 'We've got to find a way of making it tribal,' says an ally of Tony Blair [...]

As he surveys the scene ten years on, the Prime Minister can congratulate himself that on one task, he has made extraordinary progress. The emasculation of the Conservative Party and [...]

It is perhaps a sign of the times that no cabinet minister will address the tenth-anniversary conference of Unions 21 on 8 March. Unions 21 is a centre-left pressure group [...]

Kirsty Milne reports that Labour control freaks have neglected their duties Aspectre haunts the sleep of loyal Blairites. New Labour's least favourite left-winger, Liz Davies, is running for election to [...]

Would new Labour take the unions seriously? Would it be economically radical? And would it keep the Tories out for a generation? Three key figures revisit their post-election benchmarks Perhaps [...]

Alexander Cockburn warns against Clinton-mania coming to Britain As he approaches his 20 January inauguration and the shadow-line where rhetoric commences its encounter with reality, Bill Clinton must surely congratulate [...]

Like the vast closing of an arc, the Scottish election in the sunshine was the last election for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, ten years exactly after their first extraordinary […]

Gordon Brown is in serious trouble. That much is obvious now, even to the most devoted members of his inner circle. Just three weeks before the Budget, authority is leaching […]

As Labour has stumbled from crisis to crisis, each of its own making, the Conservatives have been looking in good shape. David Cameron's intervention on the question of radical Islam, [...]

Just before David Cameron took over as leader of the Conservative Party, it was accepted among those in the political class that it was impossible for the Tories to win [...]

'They disturbed me while I was watching Home and Away,' says a mildly outraged Alexandra Price, 22. Home and Away refers to an Australian television soap opera. 'They' refers to [...]

While Michael Howard's Tory party has spent the past year working up ideas and costings for its election manifesto, Tony Blair has been watching television. He was so inspired by [...]

The signs of an imminent general election now abound. The government has started to churn out announcements as it clears the decks before Parliament rises. The most vicious of these [...]

Dumped by Reading East, Jane Griffiths is battling hard to remain a Blair babe. The Labour MP's CV to the West Ham constituency party stressed she was a 'natural team [...]

The American liberal journal The Nation last week described the renewed IRA bombing campaign as 'an indefensible military response to the corruption and recklessness of a politician who was willing [...]

It was probably no more than a throw away remark to a friendly journalist, perhaps not even intended for publication. But when Tony Blair told the Observer on Sunday that [...]

Most comment on the marketing side of this General Election has concentrated on the daily press conferences, who has booked what poster spaces, the content of the political broadcasts and [...]