SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
ALL OF the parties came out of the council elections in Scotland with something to smile about — yes, even the Tories.
Having a very bad night indeed, though, was whole idea of local government. So the losers on Thursday were pretty much all of us.
The contest to run Scotland’s councils might be over, but the fight to defend local government really needs to get started.
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal



