Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Forget the 'progressive alliance' — only outright victory will do
NICK WRIGHT argues that despite the nationwide abandonment of the blatantly corrupt and venal Tories, any lash-up with the Lib Dems is doomed to fail — the left must instead mobilise the voiceless and voteless
The vagaries of Britain’s unrepresentative first-past-the-post election system has induced a deluded state of mind in some people who conclude that a “progressive alliance” is the way to remove the Tories from office — it won't work
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
BORIS JOHNSON seems set to win the unpopularity stakes. He has managed this by his own efforts and with little help from the Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer, leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, whose own popularity rating has slipped even as the Prime Minister’s plummeted.
The old Cold War joke had it that the biggest political party in Britain was the party of ex-communists — a category that once included a Labour chancellor of the exchequer and today includes the odd Guardian leader writer — and even odder Times columnist.
Today the Party of Defecting Tory Voters, which by all accounts, may allow the election of a Lib Dem in place of the disgraced Tory Owen Paterson, is even more substantial.
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