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Martin Kettle: As referendums return to centre stage, we should heed one of the wisest speakers on the subject: Margaret Thatcher

Martin Kettle: The government’s mini-budget was a step in the right direction, but it would have been even better to have apologised for the 10p tax fiasco

Martin Kettle: The current bout of bean-spilling might embarrass Gordon Brown, but it’s not going to have much effect on an already grim political reality

Martin Kettle: The current bout of bean-spilling might embarrass Gordon Brown, but it’s not going to have much effect on an already grim political reality

Martin Kettle: More bloody-minded denial could consign Labour to the margins for a century. It must make the tough decisions now

Martin Kettle: MPs should tell Brown: in the name of God, go. But they’ll let him grind on, and the party will slip back to the margins