Maurice Glasman

For Labour the writing is on the wall In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there is an exchange between two characters. Bill asks Mike how he went bankrupt and he answers: “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.” The deathly disintegration of Labour is intensifying. The general election of 2019 was not the end of the story of class re-alignment but...

"When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it."- Tony Benn. It was obvious from the start that once the UK voted to...

Rather than a system based on the mutual impoverishment of workers, we must pursue one based on protection. Coronavirus exploits the underlying conditions, or co-morbidities, of our bodies. It probes our immune system and preys upon our weaknesses. It works in the same way on our economy, society and polity, targeting poorer and older people, exposing our paralysed industrial capacity, the contracting out of...

The launch of Labour’s Manifesto today only intensifies a tragic sense of missed opportunity. Instead of sailing into battle with the wind behind us in transforming our political and economic settlement in favour of workers and those most abused and neglected by the domination of the rich and the most advantaged, we have the wind against us and there is...

Why No Deal Is the Real Deal: Brexit and the Politics of the Interregnum Brexit has returned to our politics after the months of lockdown, government confusion and societal panic. The essential point remains the same, the capacity of the state to pursue an industrial policy and change the direction of the economy in favour of those places and people...

The immediate task before us is to leave the EU and to break the constraints on democracy that it represents. THE history of the British left is one of crises that promise victory but result in domination by the right. In my lifetime I have lived through the stagflation of the ’70s, the miners’ strike in the ’80s, Black Tuesday in...

The Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman tells B4B how Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is going to take the UK out of the European Union As the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell finally reveal their pro-Brexit hand Lord Maurice Glasman tells B4B why he believes the Labour party has the right leaders at the right time...

The immediate task before us is to leave the EU and to break the constraints on democracy that it represents. THE history of the British left is one of crises that promise victory but result in domination by the right. In my lifetime I have lived through the stagflation of the ’70s, the miners’ strike in the ’80s, Black Tuesday in...