Paul Mason
Labour haven’t just failed to win – it’s worse than that
Labour have failed to understand the nature of the SNP challenge and are paying the ultimate price.
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Alex Thomson
What is the SNP doing to stamp out its problem fringe element?
Yesterday this correspondent suggested it was time the SNP named and shamed its extremist fringe. They’ve made a belated start to stamp it out – but could they do more?
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Alex Thomson
Gordon Brown the footsoldier: could he pull it off again?
Barnstormer 2 – the sequel. The heroic – at least as far as unionists are concerned – Gordon Brown rides into Glasgow from Fife to sweep all before him in an impassioned plea to sway the electorate.
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Alex Thomson
Could SNP do more to ‘name and shame’ the fringe?
SNP activists claim Scottish Labour was behind a dark propaganda deed to wreck its own rally in Glasgow. Come on guys.
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Alex Thomson
Jim Murphy confronts ‘the ugly face of nationalism’
Free speech was unquestionably denied in Glasgow today. It was shameful and it was perpetrated by people who say they will vote SNP.
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Alex Thomson
It’s not over til it’s over: Scottish Labour leader keeps on smiling
With the polls predicting disaster for his party, Scottish Labour party leader “Sunny Jim” Murphy is still smiling in the face of the political weather.
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Paul Mason
Enter Europe’s new populist left movement
The populist left has begun from a recognition that – in the highly marketised, globalised and granular economy of the past 25 years – social justice begins small and from below.
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish Labour U-turn on tax devolution
Jim Murphy, the front-runner for leadership of the Scottish Labour party, decides he does want full tax devolution to Scotland after all.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Jim Murphy save Scottish Labour?
Jim Murphy is expected to declare his candidacy for the leadership of Scottish Labour in the next 48 hours, but some commentators say he has too much Blairite baggage to carry off the job.
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Gary Gibbon
Why Miliband’s Labour reshuffle is no purge of the Blairites
With Jim Murphy retained and Tristram Hunt promoted, it’s hard to justify Tory Chairman Grant Shapps’s claim that today’s shadow cabinet reshuffle is a clear-out of the new Labour old guard.
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Michael Crick
Not a good week, or month, for Labour
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.