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The Tories are far worse than simply incompetent
Of course the government is badly organised, but its response to the pandemic is deliberate — it is ideological cronyism on an industrial scale and the left needs to call that out, writes JON TRICKETT MP
The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
SOME people in senior positions in the labour movement are arguing that our central attack on the Tories should be to show that they are incompetent and that Labour would be much more capable of handling the multiple crises facing the country.
The charge is incompetence — and the verdict is that they are guilty. However, it is far from clear that this ought to be the central point of Labour’s critique.
Let’s start with the charge. This bunch is perhaps the most incompetent shower ever to be elected into office in our country since universal suffrage was introduced.
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ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
