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Tony Blair is pining for a centre ground that no longer exists The former prime minister has shown a total disconnect from the impact of economic change on ordinary people.   What if a great political leader from the past could time travel to our day? It would make for a classic comedy. Confronted with the wreckage of Labourism across the Red Wall, the rise of "wokeness" and the salience of far-right ideology among working people, we would laugh at his confusion. As he deployed policies and rhetoric from the distant past, like Don Quixote attacking windmills with a lance, we would gri...

The challenge facing Britain's Labour and Liberal Democrat parties cannot be overstated. Political parties have no divine right to exist and, Joe Biden's victory apart, progressive parties of the centre and centre Left are facing marginalisation, even extinction, across the Western world. And truth be told, no sensible Democrat or democrat should overplay the Biden victory. He won against an incumbent like no other; even then, Donald Trump increased his number of votes in the 2020 presidential election from 2016. The problem is that, in an era where people want change in a changing world, and...

Tony Blair: Without total change Labour will die The Labour Party needs complete deconstruction and reconstruction. Nothing less will do.   The challenge facing Britain’s Labour and Liberal Democrat parties cannot be overstated. Political parties have no divine right to exist and progressive parties of the centre and centre left are facing marginalisation, even extinction, across the Western world. Where is the French Socialist Party of François Mitterrand or the German SPD of Willy Brandt? And dominant national parties can very quickly become small fringe parties under the hammer bl...

There's already a secret blueprint to revive the Red Wall - it's called Thatcherism 2.0 The Queen’s Speech on Tuesday is Government’s last chance to show it cares as much about creating new wealth as distributing it more equally 8 May 2021 • 5:00am A steep rise in corporation tax. An extra round of cumbersome rules and regulations for directors. A higher minimum wage, disruption to trade with Europe and, of course, almost unlimited rises in government spending. Measured by what it actually does, if not by its rhetoric, the Johnson administration is probably the most anti-business since ...

Joe Chamness: the boy who could fly By Butch Dale • • • • EDITOR’S NOTE: Popular columnist Butch Dale has offered to share some stories about Montgomery County sports. This is the sixth of those stories. Before consolidation, most of the small county schools only had three sports . . . basketball, baseball and track (although in the 1960s, two or three schools started 8-man football teams). I loved participating in basketball and baseball . . . but track? Not so much. I ran in various events in junior high, but I could ...