JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
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Is Reeves doing a Brown?
Is the shadow chancellor’s pledge to ‘not tax the rich’ just a ruse to get into office, which will then be reversed? SOLOMON HUGHES looks to a public spending turnaround in 1998 for possible evidence
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far
WILL Labour be better than advertised? “Soft left” supporters of Sir Keir Starmer are trying to reassure themselves that Labour’s bleak promises to do very little redistribution or reform are just a ruse: Labour is trying to sneak into government past the right-wing press and reactionary voters by adopting a low profile.
Once elected, they hope Rachel Reeves will say: “We’ve looked at the books, and it looks like we will have to tax the rich after all.”
Reeves’s recent announcement in the Telegraph that she has torn up her own former commitment to a “wealth tax” prompted another round of “she’s only saying that to get elected and doesn’t mean it” from the soft left.
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