The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Like Napoleon, is Boris Johnson set to return from exile to have his hundred days?
After just 44 days out of power Boris Johnson has announced his intention to return to the top of the Tory Party — but regardless of his undeniable popularity as a relatable, bumbling bon vivant, his Waterloo can't be far off, writes JOHN WIGHT
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
SOME TIME after the event, Napoleon Bonaparte famously recounted that upon landing on the southern French coast on Wednesday March 1, 1815, from his exile on Elba, he and his followers were soon met by a small crowd of locals.
Among them was the local mayor, who upon seeing how few made up the former and soon to be restored French emperor’s party, told him: “We were just beginning to be quiet and happy; now you are going to stir us all up again.”
A student of history, one wonders if former prime minister Boris Johnson will ponder this particular historical parallel as he wends his way back to Britain via a first class transatlantic flight from his luxury holiday in the Caribbean, having made his intention to return to Number 10 after just 44 days of his own exile from high office?
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