We are firm believers in the New Labour theme tune: things can only get better.
In a radio interview, Mr Blair promised that Labour would be both "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime".Although the clever phrase was actually Gordon Brown's, it perfectly encapsulated the important New Labour theme of rights and responsibilities.
She does not seem to have been overly troubled by glass ceilings, and has struggled to appear as though she suffers alongside her sisters.The Women's Unit was supposed to epitomise "joined-up government"—getting ministries to work together, a favourite New Labour theme.
But he touched on the Labour theme of the Conservatives' being out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people by saying that Conservative plans to cut government spending risk plunging the economy back into recession just as it begins to grow again.
However, if recent speeches and media interviews are anything to go by, we can expect to hear more of Blue Labour's themes and language from senior figures in the party as Labour tries to rebuild bridges with its lost working-class voters.
Ed Miliband has already made the "squeezed middle" a key Labour campaign theme.
If New Labour's theme for the arts was (in a word) diversity and the coalition's is philanthropy, who knows what a Ukip/Conservative-flavoured arts policy would consist of, if anything.
Balls's decision to plump for a housebuilding programme instead of paying down debt reflects the Labour conference theme that the country is gripped by an economic emergency and that all short-term government energy must be focused on raising demand and boosting confidence.
