One Nation

For the Labour Party Conference in Brighton this year, we published a special issue featuring four articles on One Nation. The articles were written by Stewart Wood, Tim Bale, Amarjit Lahel and John Gaffney, and Mark Wickham Jones. These articles will appear in the forthcoming issue 84 3, due out soon.

You can read them here:


Introduction - Reflections on One Nation Labour by Michael Jacobs

Explaining One Nation Labour by Stewart Wood

The Modernising Antecedents and Historical Origins of One Nation Labour by Mark Wickham-Jones

The Morphology of the Labour Party’s One Nation Narrative: Story, Plot and Authorship by John Gaffney and Amarjit Lahel

Concede and Move On? One Nation Labour and the Welfare State by Tim Bale

PQ and the Fabians at the Labour Party Conference

Spin Alley: Debating the Leader’s Speech

The Political Quarterly are pleased to be sponsoring the Fabian Society event, Spin Alley: Debating the Leader’s Speech, on Tuesday 24 September at 19:15 – 20:30, Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel.

Jessica Asato (PPC, Norwich North – Chair), Jackie Ashley (Columnist, The Guardian), John Denham MP, Michael Jacobs (Political Quarterly), Marcus Roberts (Deputy General Secretary, Fabian Society) will be discussing the main issue of the day.

We will be handing out free copies of the One Nation collection appearing in our next issue due out soon, with articles from Stewart Wood, Mark Wickham-Jones, John Gaffney and Amarjit Lahel and Tim Bale.