A certain idea of Ed Miliband

The story of the post-Blair Labour Party, if it can be contained in one individual, is the story of Ed Miliband. This is not a story about backstabbing brothers, back-room deals with “union paymasters”, election promises engraved on stone tablets, questionable slogans on mugs, bacon sandwiches or double kitchens; nor anything as vulgar as retail policies aimed at marginal constituencies. Miliband’s story is really about the exhilaration of ideas: where they come from, why some of us fall in love with them, and what propels those ideas from the fringes of the debate to the fulcrum of an era. This…