Starmer will inherit far worse than Blair – and will do nothing to improve it
War, austerity and authoritarianism will be the dominant features of a Starmer-led government.
Popular resistance to that seems almost inevitable.
British Politics
Labour’s big idea of ‘securonomics’ is 70 years out of date
Labour is tying itself to the US war machine and the economics of the new Cold War.
It will add to insecurity.
Defend Diane Abbott! Reinstatement Now!
The Labour leadership’s suspension of Diane Abbott as a Labour MP is a blatantly factional move against a leading left critic of Starmer. She should be reinstated now.
Hawkish support for the US’s cold war is damaging Britain
Building up opposition to austerity together with support for an alternative view to the cold war consensus is vital.
The latest push to legalise assisted dying and the danger it represents
Disabled people need support to live, not die: why the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide should be opposed.
Powering up Britain – battery not included
Grant Shapps has failed to rise to the task of making the UK government’s Net Zero Plans adequate to meet the target of no more than a 1.5C increase in temperatures by 2050, as the Government was directed to do by the High Court last September.