Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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‘White privilege?’ Don’t believe a word of it
SOLOMON HUGHES gives the long history of ignorant and reactionary Tory interventions into education that attempt to hide the problems caused by cuts with contrived and ridiculous debates over culture and tradition
Robert Halfon
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
ROBERT HALFON’S attempt to blame anti-racists for bad results in underfunded schools rather than his own government’s spending cuts, is one of the nastier attempts to use “culture war” themes to cover Tory education failures.
But it’s also a bit of a tradition: Tory education ministers often blame “liberal values” for bad results from badly funded education. Every time they do, school funding drops and the results get worse.
Halfon, leading the education select committee, showed white kids on free school meals are doing very badly in school results: that’s because the poorest kids in de-industrialised towns are doing even worse than the poorest kids in cities.
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