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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 (...)
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 (...)
Fortunes are being made by political favourites, while London’s money laundering fuels corruption across the planet
Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. The government has discovered that it can bluster through any scandal. No minister need resign. No one need apologise. No (...)
Insolvency Service data shows more than 50 people banned in cases costing HMRC millions
Directors of clothing manufacturers in Leicester have been struck off for a combined total of more than 400 years in cases costing HMRC millions, data shared with the Guardian reveals.
Details of (...)
Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions – into the prime minister’s office.
To accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must first destroy power. It must reduce rival centres of power – the judiciary, the civil service, (...)
The lobbying and state-directed demands of climate NGOs are hurting the UK’s climate movement. We need to organize our struggle at a distance from the state.
In early January, Labour leader Keir Starmer tweeted about his commitment to tackling the climate emergency, sharing an image of him (...)
In its first year of existence, XR transformed the global conversation around the climate crisis. But then it was gripped by internal conflicts about its next steps. Can the movement reinvent itself for the post-pandemic world? By Matthew Taylor
In November 2017, Roger Hallam looked up from (...)
Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and it has plans for cracking down.
Another day, another skirmish in Britain’s culture war. Once again, universities have found themselves on the frontline. According to a report from the thinktank Policy (...)
Speech is only free when everyone has a voice – that’s why young people are angry
Outside Broadcasting House in London, the BBC has erected a statue to one of its former employees, George Orwell. The author leans forward, hand on hip, as if to make a telling point. Carved into the wall beside (...)
Rishi Sunak has turned on the taps. Entering parliament yesterday, he was in an unenviable position: he had had less than a month to prepare his budget, and had succeeded to the Exchequer only by accepting the kind of wing-clipping his predecessor refused. Suspicions lurked over the extent of (...)
Today’s budget exposes the truth about a decade of austerity – it wasn’t an economic necessity but a political choice. Now the Left must seize the initiative on this new terrain where economics has been repoliticised, argues Grace Blakeley.
In today’s budget, Rishi Sunak has announced a £30bn (...)
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