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June 2025

Lessons in Love
After a bruising week for the government what should they learn to do differently? And can they show a restive PLP that they too will be treated with…
 • Emma Burnell
Emma Burnell, playwright
I want a Neil Kinnock who'd win an election.
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The bet the government is making
Rachel Reeves is staking her success on capital spending. It's more Keynsian than her detractors think, but doesn't come without risks.
 • Emma Burnell
Sometimes, it's OK to laugh at the clowns
Reform overshadows their own progress by highlighting their worst instincts.
 • Emma Burnell
Blue Labour Blues
There is a kernel of a good argument in Blue Labour's analysis, but they have a messenger, motivation and messaging problem that blinds them - and their…
 • Emma Burnell

May 2025

New Zeitgeist Tapes: Conclave
Pretentious? Deep? Or just a 'Whodunnit' for the election of pope?
 • Emma Burnell
Enter Boris
Exit Right. Enter Night. Take my hand, we're off to never Tory land.
 • Emma Burnell
On language, immigration and cohesion
Language matters. Cohesion matters. Language that obscures is incoherent.
 • Emma Burnell
The not so very strange death of Tory England
Is it existential now for the Tories?
 • Emma Burnell
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