Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
Starmer’s top priority? Crush the left
Labour’s top brass fear they might not get the thumping majority some predict — therefore the number of socialists in the next parliament must be minimised, to prevent them having any influence from the back benches on an enfeebled PM, writes ANDREW MURRAY

LABOUR’S first full week of general election campaigning has been overshadowed by the authoritarianism and racism of the Starmer apparatus, and the complete collapse of democratic norms and procedures within the party.
Now who could have seen that coming?
What had previously been Westminster insider understanding — that Starmer’s Labour is an undemocratic, mendacious and discriminatory project — is now common currency.
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