Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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‘Hard-working families?’ Do you mean ‘benefit cuts?’
It is not an empty cliche: ‘hard-working families’ was the harbinger of New Labour’s ruthless and indefensible attacks on the welfare state. SOLOMON HUGHES dissects Starmer’s weasel words
Keir Starmer pictured during his speech to Labour conference in Brighton
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
AT 12,000 words, The Road Ahead, Keir Starmer’s pamphlet for the Fabian Society, seems to be talking a lot but saying nothing.
Even Starmer fans found it hard to get excited about his “10 principles,” which were so bland any leader of any party could sign up to them.
Why would Boris Johnson, or even Margaret Thatcher, find it hard to embrace his third principle, which reads: “People and businesses are expected to contribute to society, as well as receive.”
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