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Democratic crunchJon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford After the
nadir of Corfu, New Labour must build a new politics, and housing
is on the front line... |
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Let's popularise our policiesChuka Ummuna Labour has
got to stop running scared for fear of offending and make the
case for its politics ... |
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Unsafe as housesGuy Aitchinson Post-credit
crunch, is New Labour fit for purpose? Harriet Harman thinks so
– but Monday night's audience was not convinced ... |
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Renewing Labour through social and environmental justiceRuth Lister High earners could pay more without feeling it and the poor would keep spending... |
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No turning backGerry Hassan The left
cannot go back to its old comfort zone - we need to find a way
out of our atrophied, deformed political system ... |
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The Thatcher approachYvonne Roberts Cynical electioneering
tactics won't wash. Redistribution and empowerment should be the
basis of a fairer society ... |
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Shaken and stirredHeather Wakefield We need
strong but flexible coalitions that break with the sectarianism
of the past and name, shame and campaign... |
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A taxing problemRichard Murphy We need a
party which is candid about the need for those with resources
to pay for the services our society needs... |
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How to unpick New LabourNeal Lawson The centre-left
needs an inspiring vision based on greater equality and a truly
democratic state... |
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Follow Cuba's emissions standardRichard Wilkinson Castro proves
that equal societies perform measurably better on environmental
goals ... |
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Time for a changeSalma Yaqoob The democratic deficit between the British public
and their political institutions demands urgent attention .
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Not following in Thatcher's footstepsJeremy Gilbert Any progressive government of the future needs
to abandon the Thatcherite consensus that has caused such social
and economic anguish. . . |
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Big Bang's trail of destructionJonathan Rutherford The financial deregulation of the 1980s was a
Conservative idea that Labour embraced – with disastrous consequences.
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A country in ruinsMichael Prior The best on offer is the formation of a grand
coalition or a slide into authoritarian state-control ... |
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A political muddleZygmunt Bauman There is almost no way to distinguish left from
right in economic, or any other, policy ... |
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Anything is possibleRupa Huq It would be far too easy and ultimately wrong
to write the party off now, so long before the next election ...
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Taming the forces of globalisationMichael Rustin Two tasks now loom before us – re-regulating the
markets and safeguarding the environment. . . |
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Flashman at the Tory conferenceJonathan Rutherford Conference speech shows Tory bankruptcy
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Can the Tories fix the broke society?Tom Griffin Monday night's debate highlighted that Cameron's
urgent task is working out a response to the current economic
crisis. . . |
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Family guysAnastasia de Waal Backing marriage has become a fetish for Cameron
Tories, but the nuclear family is a symptom, not a cause of social
stability. . . . |
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Cameron's con trickRupa Huq The future is not Conservative. It's a Tory-lite
version of New Labour - for now, anyway ... |
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Back to the progressive futureAndrew Pearmain Imagine if Labour hadn't imploded in 1983. Insulated
from market forces, we'd be thriving ... |
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Who owns the progressive future?Suzanne Moore Brown or Cameron at the helm? Makes no odds,
when the economy is as unsinkable as the Titanic ... |
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Right thinking?Beatrix Campbell The future isn't necessarily blue - the crisis
of capitalism suggests we might not be heading in a Conservative
direction after all ... |
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On the right roadPhillip Blond Progressive Conservatism must now rethink market
economics, but at least it is not wedded to the centralist state
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The political high ground is Labour'sJon Cruddas The future demands an active state redistributing
wealth to balance a dysfunctional economy - our party's founding
principle ... |
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Blind faithDavid Lammy Anyone know what the Tories think about the financial
crisis? They've kept quiet because their solution is to trust
the markets ... |
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Policies, not politicsJesse Norman Gordon's bouncing into the abyss. The Lib Dems
are U-turning all over the place. It's left to the Tories to offer
real answers ... |
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Who owns progress winsJonathan Rutherford A struggle between left and right over the meaning
of 'progressive' politics is taking place. It's a fight Labour
must win ... |
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A Tory dystopiaAlex Nunns David Cameron’s apple-pie promises and feel-good rhetoric might sweep him to power in 2010, but there’s a yawning gap between the vagueness of his words and the likely consequences of his policies. Alex Nunns takes us on a trip into the future to see how Britain might look after four years of Tory rule. . . First published in Red Pepper |
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