Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Who is Starmer's pledge breaking for?
The Labour leader's doublespeak is politics-as-normal, but it makes him untrustworthy to Labour voters and a sitting duck for Tory media
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In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
DOES it matter Keir Starmer tore up the “10 pledges” that got him elected Labour leader? His centrist defenders say this is just grown-up politics-as-normal. It’s just some sad butthurt lefties moaning.
But this is precisely the problem: Starmer abandoning his pledges is politics-as-normal. But relentless Tory victories are also politics-as-normal.
Working people paying for every crisis is politics-as-normal.
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