Certain things said over the past weeks can't be unchallenged. For one, Ed Miliband has been electorally successful for Labour. Under his leadership Labour has taken some big steps forward from the nadir experienced in last 5 years of New Labour. A significant chunk of the lost support has been regained.

It is common to use two political spectrums to sort out where people or parties sit ideologically: the left-right spectrum and the authoritarian-libertarian spectrum. The latter is important in explaining the politics of the coalition’s formation, as it was a defence of civil liberties against New Labour’s post-9/11 authoritarian streak that both saw senior figures

The double-jeopardy rule survived the Dark Ages, but it could not survive the New Labour years.

In their most heady days, New Labour was radical, a revolutionary movement within the confines of the Labour Party, they tore up the old, stuck dogmatically to a new plan despite calls for compromise and a slowing of the pace by those reluctant to change. Sadly, Ed Miliband's reign has shown very little of this courage.

Perhaps the most inane remark ever uttered by any leading New Labour figure - invidious though it is to select just one, of course – is Peter Mandelson’s vapid contention that ‘we are all Thatcherites now’. Some of us never were, and never will be. Such abject ideological capitulation to the ideas Labour was created to stand against demonstates

1. New Labour had run out of ideas & steam by 2010.  2. We deserved to lose the 2010 Election. 3. We, New Labour, breached your trust by mismanaging European expansion in 2005 & and the Lisbon Treaty. 4. Our party, New Labour, were too close to the filthy rich. 5. The cost of living

David Montgomery, who has died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage, was one of the most prominent historians in the US and the model of a scholar-activist. Along with the late Herbert Gutman, he was the most influential practitioner of the "new labour history", which moved the study of workers away from the institutional history of unions to the workplace struggles, political ideologies and cultur...

Over the last decade the number of people who think the government should increase taxes and spend more has halved, writes Ruth Porter.

A south Armagh, who is the son of a Sinn Fein councillor, has been appointed as the special adviser to the shadow NI secretary Vernon Coaker.

The doyen of Liberator magazine, Simon Titley, just sent me through a cutting from the Leicester Mercury which gives us just a glimpse at the reasons why public services became so expensive under New Labour. The report tells us of the unused regional fire control centre for the East Midlands, standing empty in Castle Donington,