Last week Labour MP Jon Cruddas and academic Jonathan Rutherford wrote an article for the Guardian titled 'Labour must fashion a new patriotism'. They said: We are an immigrant nation. There is no going back and we must find ways of living together and creating a new vision of England. We demand that migrants must be like us. But who actually are we? They must share our British values. B...

Walking through the Commons during the week of the coup that failed to dislodge Tony Blair, I bumped into leading Labour backbencher and thinker Jon Cruddas. He chuckled: 

The party should not shrink from seeking to restore belief in a national identity, say Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford.

Interesting interview by Paul Bickley from Third Way (Christian comment on culture) Few MPs have a bigger reputation for political passion and integrity than Dr Jon Cruddas. Third Way tracked him down to his office in the old Scotland Yard.  You have often spoken about your family. How did it shape you? I was one of five. My mother’s

The referendum on voting reform in May will see strange bed-fellows in both the No and Yes camps. Much of the left of the Labour Party will be supporting AV, including Ken Livingstone, Jon Cruddas and Tony Benn, as well as Sam Tarry, Chair of Young Labour. AV is also supported by bloggers Sunder Katwala, Sunny Hundal

If you think there really is a big idea behind the Big Society, then you agree with the unlikely pairing of Jon Cruddas (Lab, Dagenham) and Jesse Norman (Con, Hereford). The latter's new book, “The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics”, attempts the seemingly impossible task of providing a grand philosophical narrative to underscore David Cameron's often amorphous rhe...

Jon Cruddas said Labour MPs feel "a sense of grievance" over the way Phil Woolas has been treated by the party.

The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2010, speech by Jon Cruddas MP Thank you for inviting me to give the memorial Lecture tonight. My subject is ‘Taking Back the Big Society’. Now I was going to speak about the specifics of the Big Society debate, about its different forms across Whitehall; its tensions and contradictions and about Labour’s

Voting is almost over, and in reality I am sure that there are few punters cool enough, or indecisive enough, to be casting at this eleventh hour. At the outset of the contest Jon Cruddas made the wise observation that even though he had known all the candidates personally for 20 years, he didn’t really know

“Britain’s broken economy – and how to fix it”, an ebook, is published today by Soundings. With a foreword from the Guardian’s Larry Elliot and an afterword from Jon Cruddas MP, this ebook aims to set out an alternative political economy for the British centre left.