The Labour Party has often been wracked by disputes over ideological differences, but there has always been an internal consensus among the various factional players that a minimal aim of Labour in government is to reduce poverty. Gaitskellite, Bevanite, Blairite, Brownite, Corbynite: all agreed that Labour had a distinctive distributional mission that sought to use the state … [Read more...] about Labour and ending poverty
The rise and rise (?) of the SNP
Scottish politics is currently dominated by arguments about self-determination and the possibility of a second referendum on independence. From a historical perspective, though, it is striking that until very late in the twentieth century such constitutional arguments lacked political salience. Before the 1970s there was no significant electoral constituency for Scottish … [Read more...] about The rise and rise (?) of the SNP