All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Close our schools now
If we are going to have a second lockdown we need to do it properly — and that means closing schools, colleges and universities, argues ROBERT POOLE
If we are going to have a lockdown — and we should have had one two weeks ago — we need to do it properly and that means closing schools, colleges and universities
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
WHEN I was asked to write this monthly column it did cross my mind that there might be times when I might struggle to fill the column inches. It seems now that the opposite is the case.
I’ve just binned the first draft of a diatribe against the callous Tory school-dinner-lifters as news comes in of a second lockdown. Though if I had been more conscientious perhaps I should have written this piece in the summer and filed it away in anticipation as it was so blindingly obvious what was going to happen.
Nadine Dorries would disagree of course, she said that only “a crystal ball” could have predicted the need for a second lockdown. Or perhaps only Sage or Independent Sage or every armchair scientist having a socially distanced pint down the pub or my four-year-old in between shooting imaginary webs in his Halloween Spiderman costume could have predicted it.
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