Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Fraudster Faulkner fracks us over
The dangerous and damaging hydraulic fracturing process is a big hit with the crackpot Conservative right — who fell for a US conman and porn huckster gassing them up about it in 2013, remembers SOLOMON HUGHES
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
A TORY hardcore are trying to get fracking reconsidered on the back of rising energy prices and widespread calls to boycott Russian gas and oil following Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
Fracking — hydraulic fracturing — means breaking up bedrock to try to liberate oil or gas. It’s polluting, can cause earthquakes and does nothing to stop global warming— which in some weird macho way is why some on the right prefer fracking to wind power or better insulation as better energy solutions.
Pushing fracking is supposed, I think, to look tough and no-nonsense. So it’s worth remembering that the last time British politicians and journalists got enthusiastic for fracking they were the opposite of savvy and in-the-know.
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