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Richard Carr

Can Labour win over Cambridge?

Richard Carr
6 November, 2014

Deriding Ed Miliband as an Oxbridge elitist is to miss the actual problem with Labour’s leadership.

Revolt on the Left: dealing with Labour’s UKIP problem

Richard Carr
7 October, 2014

The Fabian Society are right to highlight the UKIP threat to Ed Miliband, writes Richard Carr.

Miliband’s problem isn’t having the wrong ‘look’

Richard Carr
2 October, 2014

What, ultimately, will Labour be about in the coming years?

Labour needs a distinctive and radical offer for England

Richard Carr
19 September, 2014

As the party looks to respond to the referendum at party conference, Labour needs a distinctive and radical offer that delivers for England.

The First World War: how the Great War came home

Richard Carr
4 August, 2014

The First World War really did come home, and it had an impact way beyond the one million dead.

Forget Wallace, what Miliband doesn’t have is sufficient distinction in the message

Richard Carr
28 July, 2014

If Miliband can’t win on style, substance becomes more important, but I’m not sure Labour really understand this.

Labour councillors upbeat but Ed Miliband seen as a hindrance

Richard Carr
22 July, 2014

New polling reveals that Labour councillors are optimistic about 2015 but Ed Miliband viewed as a hindrance.

The left is right to fawn over Piketty’s Capital

Richard Carr
17 June, 2014

For all the FT’s attempted hatchet job, the left is right to fawn over Capital in the 21st Century.

Is Keynesianism now dead?

Richard Carr
10 June, 2014

Nick Clegg’s speech yesterday suggests perhaps not.

If we really want gender equality, we have to change the electoral system itself

Richard Carr
4 June, 2014

The argument that parliament would be flooded with a series of token women hardly stands up to scrutiny.

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