David Talbot Articles

The murder of Jo Cox has formed a dark shadow over an already desperately squalid referendum campaign. National referendums only come about once in a generation and, on the evidence of the past few months, thank goodness and good riddance. The hyperbolic language,...

When the Labour party is using its devastating defeat of 1983 as a benchmarking exercise to analyse the 2015 election, something has gone seriously awry. But you would not necessarily know it if you read Margaret Beckett’s report in to why Labour lost a winnable...

A new blue dawn has broken, has it not? The prime minister lifted the key Blair phrase that ushered in 13 years of Labour rule and updated it to a time when, he hopes, his Conservative party can rule for that long and much more. David Cameron took to the stage in...

In his seminal study in 1935, George Dangerfield wrote that the Liberal landslide of 1906 was a victory from which the party never recovered. Over a hundred years since, from a party that held the office of the deputy prime minister and was in a stable coalition...