Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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We must oppose the government’s divide and rule tactics
Fear-mongering over Muslim celebrations spreading Covid-19 and an invasion of illegal immigrants across the Channel must be resisted, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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
THE concept of “divide and rule” has been a tried and tested conservative technique, stretching back to the days of formal empire when colonial powers would pit indigenous groups against each other as part of their brutal, extractive regimes.
In recent weeks, we have seen our Tory government engage in multiple examples of this brutal tool of governance.
The first is the government’s farcical public-sector pay increase, which claimed to be “in recognition of their help in tackling Covid-19.”
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