Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
The economy: why shouldn’t we own it?
Attempts to mystify the workings of the economy in a neoliberal smog are failing — the British public is calling out for an interventionist approach under direct state control, writes MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
OVER the past 10 years the debate around ownership of the economy has shifted to the left. This might not seem obvious given that we have a Conservative government that is heading into the next election simply hoping that inflation and food prices will fall and in Scotland a government that has balanced its budgets on the backs of local councils, who now regularly close public services while maintaining the regressive council tax.
However, when it comes to industrial strategy, the terms of the debate are changing.
Public ownership of key utilities has always been popular with a majority of voters in Britain, and the disparity between this and the policies of our political parties is striking.
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