The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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The next Labour government will end countryside cruelty
PETER FROST welcomes new wildlife crime policies in Labour’s Hope Manifesto
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
There are rather a lot of things about our present non-elected Prime Minister Johnson that are hard to discover.
The man won’t answer many questions, even about how many children he has or what he learned in all those afternoon technology lessons with US pole-dancing businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.
So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that I couldn’t find if Johnson was a hunting and shooting type. We do know his predecessor David Cameron was a member of his local hunt in Oxfordshire but when it was prosecuted for wildlife offences he quietly slipped away. Now it seems Cameron has gone back to his traditional Tory ways.
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