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As the Labour Party conference approaches, Phil Hearse questions why Keir Starmer would look to Tony Blair and New Labour for inspiration.
In his recent Financial Times interview, Keir Starmer said he would ‘turn Labour inside out’ and return it to the sensible politics of the Blair-Brown (...)
Nothing more to say on the statue wars? Events in Newcastle suggest otherwise…
The problem with dishonesty is that you have to remember your most recent falsehoods to at least try to keep your story straight. In their pantomime “war against woke”, the UK’s statue defenders are incapable of (...)
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party narrowly avoided a second successive by-election defeat to the Tories yesterday. But the most important story of the campaign was the alienation of British Muslims from a political mainstream that openly despises them.
It is a sign of how badly Keir Starmer’s (...)
Martin Crake reports on the danger posed by the ‘reactionary views’ of George Galloway.
George Galloway, a key figure in the formation of the Respect coalition in 2003, is standing in the July 1 Batley and Spen by-election for his latest political instrument, the Workers Party of Great Britain. (...)
It’s not just more of the same. The state is more important than ever. This looks like ‘bastard Keynesianism’. Neil Faulkner explains.
The recent Queen’s Speech setting out the Tory programme for government was laced with authoritarianism and racism. They threw various bones to their reactionary (...)
Simon Hannah offers his view on Dominic Cummings appearance in front of the Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee.
Many people lapped up the testimony of Dominic Cummings in parliament on 26 May. He gave a hell of a performance, skewering his ex-boss Boris (...)
Rowan Fortune examines the thinking of the reactionary ’The Common Sense Group’ of Tory MPs.
Common Sense: Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age is the Manifesto of the most reactionary contingent of the Tory Party, gathered into the Common Sense Group. Within its Union Flag bedecked (...)
Terry Conway looks back at the recent local election results and explores what this means for the fracturing union.
Dave Kellaway’s article Disaster in Hartlepool sums up well the main dynamics of May 6’s elections in England. He spells out coherently the reasons why Johnson’s Tories have done (...)
Dave Kellaway gives an immediate response to the first big result of the Super Thursday elections.
Commenting on Labour’s defeat in the Hartlepool by-election, Steve Reed, shadow communities minister, speaking on Sky News, said: ‘It’s hard to say Labour did better in 2019.’
Well, Steve, that’s a (...)
Joseph Healy warns of the Prime Ministers dangerous friends
In January of 2020, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister and strongman of Hungary, called Boris Johnson, “one of the bravest politicians in Europe”. He congratulated the Tory Party on winning the general election the previous month despite “the (...)
The successful vaccine roll out by the NHS and Starmer’s right wing gallop has given Johnson a shot in the arm. Polls put the Tories 7% ahead of Labour, and on the 6 March at 13% ahead. But the Brexit fall-out, the Covid “social murder”, the dis-United Kingdom, and the economic crisis all point (...)
They could have stayed away. If the police had done that, it would have been a quiet, dignified, open-air vigil for a murdered woman, allegedly killed by a policeman. It would have been a time to grieve and remember not only Sarah Everard but the many, many more women who die as a result of (...)
Simon Hannah analyses growing police repression in Britain under the cover of the pandemic.
We are living in dangerous times. There is a steady move towards more authoritarian politics. Governments are chipping away at democratic and political rights.
The dispersal of a socially-distanced (...)
Attacks by the government and rightwing press are setting back the hard work of activist groups and charities in our communities
This month, two events defining opposite ends of the racial justice spectrum took place. In the first, in an interview with LBC, the home secretary, Priti Patel, (...)
Responding to Labour’s ‘patriotic’ turn, Simon Pearson examines how England is contested, and how class – not nationalism – offers the best political lens for socialists.
It was no surprise when a leaked Labour Party strategy document, reported in the Guardian, included an embracing of the Union (...)
The UK government has a responsibility to ensure the safety of workers who are keeping the country going during the coronavirus pandemic.
Abdi is a 40-year-old Somali man who came to the United Kingdom seeking asylum at the age of four. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Abdi had joined (...)
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of one of the most important demonstrations in British political history. The occupation of Millbank Tower during a major fifty-thousand person demonstration organised by the NUS to contest the tripling of tuition fees and cuts to student grants kickstarted (...)
Less than one year after its resounding electoral victory over the Labour Party, Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in turmoil – and crashing the country towards a social, health and economic disaster of unprecedented proportions. Combining incompetence with neoliberal (...)
Followers believe that Donald Trump is waging secret war against ritual child abusers
A conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against an elite who engage in ritual child abuse is growing across UK social media, Guardian analysis has found.
The QAnon conspiracy theory is (...)
In the early weeks of Covid-19, mutual aid groups sprang up across Britain to support those abandoned by years of austerity. Now they are grappling with their roles in the months and years to come.
In the face of government abandonment, mutual aid groups across the country have risen to the (...)
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