Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
BRITISH-BORN singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg was known throughout South Africa as the “White Zulu.”
The dedicated fighter against the obscene apartheid regime has died of pancreatic cancer aged 66.
Clegg’s mixed-race bands brought the wrath of the racist South African authorities down on his head, yet his 1987 tribute to Nelson Mandela and the other jailed ANC leaders — Asimbonanga (We have not seen him) became an anthem of the worldwide anti-apartheid struggle.
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legenary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI



