As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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What exactly is the Green Prosperity Plan?
Is it a massive injection of public cash to the tune of billions — or is it another ‘fund’ to attract private finance? Don’t get your hopes up, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THE Labour Party’s biggest remaining promise is a Green Prosperity Plan, promising to spend “£28 billion per year” investing in green jobs and insulation. That sounds like a big offer. But what does it say in the small print?
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plan is modelled on Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Looking at Biden’s scheme gives us clues to what will happen with Reeves’s plan.
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a trimmed-down version of his original “build back better” plan. That was an ambitious, New Deal-style mix of social and economic investment.
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