Keir Starmer: dream or nightmare?
The Nightmare Scenario Keir Starmer delivered his speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday knowing that his dream of victory was close to becoming a nightmare. He has struggled to…
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
The Nightmare Scenario Keir Starmer delivered his speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday knowing that his dream of victory was close to becoming a nightmare. He has struggled to…
The Labour Party Deputy leader, Angela Rayner, was reported as describing Conservatives, senior government officials and Boris Johnson as ‘homophobic, racist and misogynistic’. These substantive and arguably accurate descriptions were…
IN what came as a shock to many, Andy McDonald resigned yesterday afternoon showing the Labour Party leadership what principles and integrity look like. The Shadow Employment Rights Secretary said…
Hapless Government ministers have once again failed to take responsibility for their own inaction. Motorists around the UK have responded to press speculation that there would be fuel shortages by…
UK political ruling class keeping to type. The UK Foreign Office is slashing its global climate commitments. In addition to the FO’s £100 million budget reduction, it is also halving…
Whilst we’ve been (rightly) distracted with the Labour Conference, the events in the Middle East, the energy crisis and the social care costs, we’ve turned a blind eye to 2021’s…
A FURIOUS row erupted in the House of Commons yesterday over the ever-thorny but still popular north of the border issue of Scottish independence. SNP MP David Linden said: “We…
Plans to privatise the NHS and to allow American big pharma to make further inroads into our health sector look set to be finalised as the Health and Social Care…
The winter of 2020 was an incredibly difficult time and one that will be long remembered, for all the wrong reasons. Economic hardship, lockdowns and deaths will be uppermost in…
SOME around the world may have thought that with the election of Joe Biden more compassionate treatment of migrants to the US would be shown. But, as the country ramped…