It seems that, over the next two weeks, we are now suffering a plague of elections: six by-elections, plus the rather-important PCC elections. But the one which has the most compressed timescales of all – where candidate Sarah Champion was selected yesterday, with a mere two weeks until polling day and after a walkout at the… Continue reading Rotherham is the most important election of all
Category: by-elections
Diane Abbott and her odd generalisations
I know a little time has gone by, but just found this little gem. A rather good article was written by David Goodhard at Demos on the possible causes of the Galloway win in Bradford West. While the reasons are many and varied, it made a good fist of arguing that sectarian politics had had… Continue reading Diane Abbott and her odd generalisations
The return of the far-left: a turning point for Labour
Politics has its own rhythm. It is governed partly by obvious dates, like general elections, but partly by longer-term movements in the tectonic plates. It is easy to overestimate by-elections – the media almost invariably do – but I suspect that Bradford West might just be one of the few that historians remember. Until Thursday,… Continue reading The return of the far-left: a turning point for Labour