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Starmer: a Conservative leader of the Labour Party
How can a Labour Party whose leader's politics and character are indistinguishable from the Tories hope to be recognised as an alternative by Britain's struggling masses, asks BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
AFTER Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation, on April 4 2020 Sir Keir Starmer defeated Rebecca Long Bailey and Lisa Nandy in the Labour leadership election with more than 56 per cent of the vote.
Since then, he has been leading with a promise to unite the different ideological factions of the party.
There is an unfathomable political gap between this promise and his practice. He is pushing Labour in a direction where it is difficult to distinguish it from the Conservative Party.
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