Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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‘Bad News for Labour’: why facts matter
With free speech under threat, a bracing injection of cold facts on anti-semitism in the Labour Party is badly needed, says HILARY WISE
Research shows the general public has grossly overestimated the number of Labour members reported for anti-semitism
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
AS the political scene in Britain disintegrates in a toxic blizzard of insults, threats, hysterical claims and counterclaims, a still small voice of reason has emerged in the form of a new book: Bad News for Labour — anti-semitism, the party and public belief, by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Anthony Lerman and David Miller.
Predictably, the launch of the book during the Labour Party conference in Brighton was disrupted by threats to the management and staff of the local Waterstones and had to be moved to another venue at the last minute.
Every other fringe event on the topic of Israel-Palestine was similarly targeted — a ploy wearily familiar to organisers of such events in Britain. As the prospect of a general election approaches, we can expect such attacks to become ever more frequent and febrile.
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