with David Owen. In Renewal - A Journal of Social Democracy 24/4 (2016), 43-51.
In this piece, we argue, taking our cue from Machiavelli's Discorsi, that the Labour Party ought to seriously consider the possibility of split leadership, because it has the potential to turn tensions and antagonisms between different wings of social democratic parties into a resource, rather than an obstacle - under the right conditions. We analyse these conditions by focusing on episodes of split leadership in the post-war history of German social democracy; some successful, others unsuccessful.