FRAN HEATHCOTE believes that while the the Chancellor outlined some positive steps, the government does not appreciate the scale of the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people, whose lives are blighted by endemic low pay
The prospect of a Labour-SNP coalition is not to be feared
There is something sinister about Boris Johnson's whipping up fear of Scottish involvement in Westminster, writes CHRIS STEPHENS
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
ONE of the trials of being a candidate in an election is not being able to see how the various messages of each political party are playing in the media, only seeing how they are impacting on the doorstep and often having to respond to events which the poor candidate hasn’t seen.
However, one of the more ironic features of the campaign so far has been Boris Johnson trying to whip up hysteria at the prospect of, in his words, “a Corbyn/Sturgeon deal,” with the public being asked to believe that.
How can two level-headed politicians be such a threat to the voters that the prospect of a Prime Minister who behaves as a man-child is the safer option? Any rational elector will realise this is just plain nonsense.
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