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Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
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Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.
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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
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As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
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What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
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We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
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Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.
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It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
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Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
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Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.
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Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
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Solidarity is the basis of my politics.
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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.
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As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.
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Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.
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Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.
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Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
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It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
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As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
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This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
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In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
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If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.
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I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.
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Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
Douglas Alexander