Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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Union support for increased defence spending is a terrible mistake
The idea that we can boost manufacturing by demanding the government builds its bombs in Britain is wrong on many levels — not least by allowing the Tories to divert public spending from welfare to warfare, writes ANDREW MURRAY
An RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jet (left) alongside a United States Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle over the English Channel
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
TODAY, tens of thousands are marching for a change of government in the face of an escalating social crisis. The protest is backed by a range of peoples’ organisations, including the TUC, to the latter’s credit.
Yet the critical revival of the trade union movement in recent months — a revival central to any hopes of progress and change — now risks being undermined by a decision of the TUC itself.
As this paper has reported, TUC Congress last month narrowly approved a resolution instructing the general council to “campaign for immediate increases in defence spending.”
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
