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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Covid: let’s talk privatisation, not partygate
SOLOMON HUGHES laments that the media and the official opposition are more interested in Boris Johnson’s drinking and deceiving than the much larger scandal of deaths in care homes
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
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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
This month there were two big stories on the Covid pandemic. Firstly, the House of Commons standards and privileges committee investigation found ex-prime minister Boris Johnson “deliberately misled” Parliament over his Covid rule-breaking parties.
Secondly, the news website Open Democracy got hold of a secret document proving the government knew it worked to the “detriment” of care homes during Covid, where thousands of residents died, and did so in part because most social care has been privatised.
The opposition and news media concentrated almost entirely on the former, largely ignoring the latter. It suggested they care more about bad behaviour at parties than life-and-death social policies.
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