There's been a good deal of comment today on new Fabian Society research looking at public spending after 2015, which calls on Labour to rule out a commitment to Tory spending plans. Our study does not call for Labour to make a cast-iron spending pledge but quite the opposite. Flexibility...

One week later, as we enter the hangover phase of the euro veto crisis, clouds of paradox hang thick in the air. The last week has thrown up contortions, contradictions and ambiguities which have left heads spinning on all sides. Here are nine paradoxes to emerge from the chain of...

Received wisdom in Westminster and Fleet Street often misreads the public mood and underestimates the political opportunities for the left.

August's riots exposed Britain's deep divisions on attitudes to law and order. Liberal-minded, Guardian-reading types recoiled at the long sentences handed down by magistrates. Meanwhile majority public opinion wanted even...