The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
MY DEN, my safe space, is the room where I work and/or play jazz music most days.
I have a laptop, my saxophones and guitar in the room but the greatest thing is that I am surrounded by my books. My wife Kate sometimes ribs me about just how many books I do have — I have never counted them. But she sometimes says that I have too many.
I beg to differ. As far as I’m concerned the problem is never that I have too many books. The real issue is a lack of bookshelves!
RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases



