SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
THERE has rightly been a lot of discussion on tax and spend policy as we are now in the long run-up to the next general election.
We even have the spectacle of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pleading with businesses in the pages of the Times to share their profits more with customers.
This is a sure sign that there is an election coming and that the Tories are in trouble because of the dire state of the economy and the continuous fall in living standards.
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT



