Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?

The World Cup, Olympics and rise of sports betting reveal how the playing field is increasingly shaped by power and inequality, writes DENNIS BROE

Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality

In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing