Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Labour offers nothing solid over Tory sewage mess
Having flushed commitments to water nationalisation down the pan, Starmer’s party has nothing useful to say about the mismanagement of wastewater and rampant pollution by private water companies, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Down the plughole: Keir Starmer has ditched Labour's pro-public ownership policies
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
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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
BACK in December, I suggested Labour would drop its committment to water nationalisation.
All the signs are there, but we are still waiting for the other shoe to drop — Labour’s leadership are caught between their urge to purge the party of any left-wing commitments, and their inability to argue for things with clarity and determination.
So just as the private water firms prove they are unfit stewards of our nations fluids by pouring vast waves of human shit and piss into our rivers and seas, Labour decides it has nothing coherent to say.
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