Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Starmer’s missing opposition
Labour needs to show it believes in real change based on the economic needs of working people — and half-hearted noises about ‘fixing sick pay’ don’t go nearly far enough, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
LABOUR’S leadership is clearly trying to do some “message discipline” on the need to, as shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told new Health Secretary Sajid Javid, “fix sick pay” to slow the pandemic.
Ashworth has been pressing on this key issue in Parliament and TV studios.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is trying to enforce the message by highlighting “the broken system of statutory sick pay,” as has Labour chair Anneliese Dodds.
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