The Fire Next Time

The Labour government a decade ago stemmed the tide of financial disaster but failed to take the transformative steps needed to change the system. The next Labour government must be different.

The essential condition for a system of government to be sustained in the democratic era is the presence of widespread consent to the existing political, social, and economic arrangements. It is clear that this condition is breaking down all around us. In Britain, three factors are often cited as giving rise to this breakdown: the […]

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