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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As Boris falters, boredom is no alternative
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Starmer’s ‘wait-and-wait-some-more’ tactics, the reassuring flop that was the pro-war, pro-Nato demo in London, and Piers Morgan’s lack of perspective when it comes to who wields real power in ‘cancel culture’
Boris Johnson’s problem is that for him life seems to be one long party, his own rules notwithstanding. Keir Starmer on the other hand looks like a man who wouldn’t go to a party under any circumstances whatsoever — nor is he the sort of guest anyone would put at the top of their invite list.
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
THIS is where we end up if we rely on the Tory Party’s sense of shame. Crooks in Downing Street apparently determined to brazen out their law-breaking — and getting away with it.
The Conservative Party, once trading as the epitome of bourgeois probity, is indulging Boris Johnson for disregarding the very laws he wrote.
The morality of his behaviour seems of marginal concern to the one group that can remove him from office, Tory MPs and the Cabinet in particular.
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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
