Labour party
Starmer’s urgent task is to rebuild the party machine—starting at the top
General Secretary Jennie Formby must go
Can mayors save Labour? How Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham show the path back to power
Labour may have lost the last four national elections, but the party is in power in city halls across the country
The Prospect Interview #118: Opposition leaders, with Steve Richards
Behind the one quality that helps opposition leaders succeed
What Keir Starmer can learn from the failure of Jo Swinson
The former Lib Dem leader shows what happens when seemingly safe bets go wrong. Starmer can avoid this fate—if he’s careful
The curious history of brown sauce
The humble HP was originally made to squeeze profit from the sundries of empire. But, inevitably, it has become a symbol of class, status and taste—or lack of it...
A brief history of progressive patriotism
Orwell, Woolf and Priestley can inform today’s debate
The Prospect Interview #113: The Labour leadership contest, explained
Plus what Rebecca Long-Bailey, Keir Starmer and others are making of the party's historic defeat
Growing up in north London, I was somewhat sheltered from anti-Semitism. Not anymore
The election may be over, but recent attacks show that the battle around anti-Semitism from all sides of the political spectrum must continue
Why everyone should read a book from the 1980’s on the crisis of left-wing antisemitism
My dad authored That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Anti-Semitic in the 1980s—he would shocked to see how relevant it still is today
What lies behind the UK’s new political map? Education
This has become the key determinant of our election results
How Labour's social democratic reforms have been rebranded as hard left fantasies
That programmes like free education are fairly common in Europe does not make much of an impact on how they are perceived here
The social mobility trap
For decades mainstream politicians fixated on education as the way to level the playing field of life. They were wrong