If I ran a government with a bellicose foreign policy and announced the strong likelihood of entering a global conflict within 5 years, I'd try to preserve a domestic steel industry, but what do I know?

Today Jon Cruddas publishes his history of the Labour Party. It's a cut above and shows the intellectual richness of the labour tradition, much of which has been lost along the way.

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We look forward to welcoming Lord Glasman, the founder of the Blue Labour movement, to the House this evening.

Lord Glasman will deliver a lecture on ‘Covenant and Community’ as part our Faith in Public Life lecture series. 6.30pm start. All very welcome.

The Conservatives have been in power 13 years and people have rightly had enough. Labour should be ascendant, with its ideas capturing the public imagination. Yet no one quite knows what the party stands for.

Jonathan Rutherford explains why.

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Robert Kaplan, Helen Thompson and John Gray in dialogue on the end of the liberal era and the return of tragedy and realism. A fascinating exchange: well worth a read.

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'In government or out, until Labour renews the fundamentals of its own traditions and defines its political purpose it will muddle through our broken social order, surrounded by metaphorical rubble, unable to imagine the future and prey to events.'

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“For too long, too many of our public institutions have been prioritising the wrong things and focusing on the wrong problems.”

As the Civic Future Fellowship Programme launches, our Programme Director Jack Hutchison writes for UnHerd 1/3
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Blue Labour's own Jonathan Rutherford interviews the superb Michael Lind in The New Statesman on the changing nature of class and cultural conflict. Well worth a read.
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Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas from all involved with Blue Labour.

Maurice Glasman has written a Christmas letter reflecting on the momentous year we have had.
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Over half a million - net - in one year. That's a lot of houses.
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After all that, back to technocratic rule and austerity we go.

'What a lot of luggage for such a short journey.'

Huge 10,000 sample J.L. Partners for Onward with loads of interesting data — including that *every constituency in the country* leans right on social issues and left on economic issues 👇

Labour is lucky that few Tories are as thoughtful as Danny Kruger.

On 18 October, Maurice Glasman will be discussing his new book on Blue Labour with Lisa Nandy and Andy Haldane. Get your free tickets here.

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This is a week today!

Globalisation and privatisation have asset-stripped our country, while our fundamentally unserious political class turned a blind eye. And just when we need an alternative most, the government is doubling down.

That's why we're in the mess we're in.

Globalisation and privatisation have asset-stripped our country, while our fundamentally unserious political class turned a blind eye. And just when we need an alternative most, the government is doubling down.

That's why we're in the mess we're in.

On 18 October, Maurice Glasman will be discussing his new book on Blue Labour with Lisa Nandy and Andy Haldane. Get your free tickets here.

thersa.org/events/2022/10…

Maurice Glasman last weekend: “The problem with English conservatism is that it just doesn’t see the mayhem,” he says, “the dispossession and the undermining of everyday life that unrestrained market forces deliver. All this is back with Truss.”

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Maurice Glasman last weekend: “The problem with English conservatism is that it just doesn’t see the mayhem,” he says, “the dispossession and the undermining of everyday life that unrestrained market forces deliver. All this is back with Truss.”

theguardian.com/books/2022/sep…