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Monday, 8 July 2019
Engaging in British politics over the past few months has, for so many, been an exercise in containing disappointment. Brexiteers …
Continue reading "The case for the Union has never been stronger"
By James Bickerton
Thursday, 25 April 2019
If Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as looks increasingly likely, one of the institutions primarily responsible …
Continue reading "Corbyn is within touching distance of power – the Tories must unite to stop him"
By James Bickerton
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
One of the most inconvenient aspects of covering the Labour Party, for any aspiring writer, is thinking up new adjectives …
Continue reading "There is no longer a moral case for remaining in Corbyn’s Labour Party"
By James Bickerton
Friday, 15 February 2019
You know something has gone wrong when a French riot spontaneously stops. Early last Saturday afternoon I was outside the National Assembly building in …
Continue reading "I watched the Gilets Jaunes rampage across Paris – they are not going away"
By James Bickerton
Monday, 1 October 2018
Revolutions are curious beasts. Those who initiate them, all too often, are not their beneficiaries. In many cases they are …
Continue reading "Brexit revolutionaries may put Labour’s Leninist true believers in charge"
By James Bickerton
Monday, 30 July 2018
If you want to avoid being surprised by developments in British politics a good rule is to assume there is …
Continue reading "Is the Labour Party institutionally anti-semitic?"
By James Bickerton
Monday, 18 June 2018
The Labour Party has always prided itself, sometimes with more justification than others, on its inclusivity. This being the case …
Continue reading "I went to Labour Live so you didn’t have to"
By James Bickerton
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
One of the best ways of ensuring you are consistently surprised by political developments is to concentrate exclusively on the …
Continue reading "Is UKIP going to fill the hard-right void in British politics?"
By James Bickerton
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
We used to pride ourselves, in Britain, on not doing political extremism. This was something that took place overseas, to …
Continue reading "Jeremy Corbyn and the normalisation of political extremism"
By James Bickerton
