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?
LAST Saturday, a small boat carrying more than 60 people, including children, capsized and sank in the English Channel.
Six Afghan men died and some passengers are still missing. Others on the boat were from Sudan.
Imperialism’s military interventions and proxy wars continue to destabilise countries in Asia, Latin America, and east and west Africa in an aggressive drive to protect Western economic interests and impose political dominance.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT



