BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

POLITICS has changed and it “isn’t going back into the old box where it was before.”
That is how Jeremy Corbyn responded six months ago almost to the day as the election showed a historic 10-point surge for the Labour Party.
Among those most desperate to shift politics back to before the Corbyn-Labour advance is Nigel Farage, whose Ukip was annihilated in June last year.

A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN

As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets

