In a wide-ranging interview, JEREMY CORBYN talks to Ben Chacko about the difficulties the new Prime Minister faces and why he sees no future in Labour
IT COULD be tempting to treat Elon Musk’s provocations as the attention-seeking of a petulant plutocrat who was born into the wealth of his father’s mining business in apartheid South Africa.
Then there is the line from the most craven US allies — Britain’s laughable Foreign Secretary David Lammy and the EU’s woodentop Ursula von der Leyen — in response to Donald Trump mulling the annexation of Greenland and the Panama Canal. It seems to be not to take him seriously.
That would be a catastrophic mistake. Musk is in effect co-president of the US, having spent $100 million on Trump’s election campaign.
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe



