Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The roots of this crisis go far deeper than Boris Johnson
As Boris Johnson’s fortunes falter, the true potential of Brexit may yet still be grasped by the building strike wave against the immiseration of post-Covid pay and benefit cuts, argues NICK WRIGHT
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THERE IS a palpable sense of crisis attending every action and very utterance of the government.
The startling resignation of Munira Mirza, Johnson’s longest-serving consigliere, a veteran of his days as mayor of London and head of the Downing Street policy unit is just the most significant. Other escapees include the head of communications and chief of staff as well as less elevated functionaries.
Much of the week has been taken up by desperate measures to shore up Johnson’s operation with the appointment of new functionaries and of Jacob Rees Mogg as the bizarrely titled “Brexit opportunities minister.”
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