# Maurice Glasman

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Quite right!: Maurice Glasman's manifesto for 'proper' Labour | Part one

Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour, has spent years warning that Labour has lost touch with the people it was created to represent. In the first of a two-part conversation on Quite right!, he joins Michael and Maddie to explain why he thinks Keir Starmer’s project was never rea…

Maurice Glasman: how the progressives killed Labour | Part one

Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour, has spent years warning that Labour has lost touch with the people it was created to represent. In the first of a two-part conversation on Quite right!, he joins Michael and Maddie to explain why he thinks Keir Starmer’s project was never rea…

If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour is finished – Maurice Glasman | Part two

Maurice Glasman returns for the second part of his conversation with Michael and Maddie – this time to ask whether the Makerfield by-election could write Labour’s obituary notice. As Andy Burnham prepares to take on Reform in one of Labour’s old heartlands, Maurice explains why this contest will re…

Is Andy Burnham's win the death of Blue Labour? | Jonathan Hinder interview

As Labour grapples with falling poll ratings, the rise of Reform UK, and growing questions about its political identity, Labour MP Jonathan Hinder joins PoliticsJOE to discuss the future of the party, the influence of Blue Labour, and why so many traditional Labour voters have drifted away. In this…

Burnham's dream cabinet – and why Prince George should go to Eton

This week: Burnham’s cabinet, Prince George’s schooling – and the buildings that make Britain beautiful. As Andy Burnham prepares to enter Downing Street, Michael and Madeline ask who should make up his dream Labour cabinet. Might he draw from the impressive pool of Blue Labour talent: Jonathan Hin…

The world after liberalism | Maurice Glasman & Sohrab Amari

Is this the end of liberalism, or just another temporary crisis? If it is the end, what will follow it? And where did it all go wrong? Since the end of WWII, the Western world has been governed by liberal principles. But as faith in liberalism fades, many are asking: what deeper vision should guide…

»Talk to workers!« | Tell Me More with Maurice Glasman

In this episode of »Tell Me More«, DIE ZEIT’s Jochen Bittner talks with Maurice Glasman about »Blue Labour« and social politics in the UK and Germany. Everywhere, Social Democrats are in decline. The British Labour Lord Maurice Glasman has a few survival tips for the SPD: It needs to become more so…

Andy Burnham’s uncosted spending spree — is Britain’s new PM making promises he can’t keep?

Julia Hartley-Brewer grills Blue Labour founder Lord Maurice Glasman on Andy Burnham’s first days as Prime Minister, questioning whether his flurry of announcements — VAT off electricity bills, cut-price bus fares, rough sleeping funds — are anything more than uncosted trinkets.  They clash over de…

EP #70 A Politics of Restoration - with Maurice Glasman

Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair welcome Maurice Glasman back to Leaving Egypt for a second conversation. Maurice traces the exhaustion of a settlement built on progressivism and globalisation -one the church has too often been co-opted into rather than resisted. In its eroding, he sees opportunity f…

Terror suspects caught with suspicious vans near RAF Fairford

Julia Hartley-Brewer examines the suspected terror plot targeting RAF Fairford after five men were arrested and a local farmer raised the alarm. Former counterterrorism chief Chris Phillips assesses the apparent security failures, possible Iranian links and reports of homemade explosives. Labour p…