Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The history of moments and movements
KEITH FLETT looks at how social movements like Black Lives Matter can effect systemic and lasting change in society beyond removing statues and taking the knee
Black Lives Matter demonstrators take a knee during a 'Kill The Bill' protest against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in St Peter's Square, Manchester in March 2021
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 YEAR after the murder of George Floyd, there is no longer any question that Black Lives Matter is a movement and not just a moment in historical time.
That removal of doubt applies both to those who oppose racism in all its forms and those who see nothing fundamentally wrong with discrimination continuing to exist.
Arguments remain over statues, with the fallen statue of slaver Edward Colston now on display in a Bristol Museum awaiting a decision on its final resting place.
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