Plain Old Labour
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 32 Number 4 (2024)
Plain Old Labour
Nick Garland pages 11-18
Abstract
Keir Starmer’s Labour has a strikingly simple perspective on the party’s history: of a series of good Labour governments affecting progressive change on behalf of ‘working people’. This might seem a rather prosaic observation, but it marks a striking departure from the more radically revisionist intellectual efforts of the Blair or Miliband era. Perhaps, however, ‘Plain Old Labour’ is not such a bad thing in a moment when social-democratic instinct may be a better guide to a turbulent world than sweeping vision.
To cite this article
Nick Garland (2024) Plain Old Labour, Renewal, 32(4), 11-18