The Greater Manchester mayor has shifted left over the years — but his record still shows a tendency to wobble when pressure comes from the right, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Get the vulture capitalists out of social care
JON TRICKETT says the government's social care solutions punish the poorest
'We cannot tackle the social care crisis until care is taken out of profit-making hands'
RAMZY BAROUD explains why Israel’s political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes
DAVID RABY charts the ever increasing US attempts at intervention in Mexico’s internal affairs
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ and ROGER D HARRIS highlight how the priority for internationalists should be defending Venezuela’s government against external aggression
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
WHEN Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, he stood on the steps of Downing Street and announced that he had prepared a plan to “fix the social care crisis once and for all.”
After waiting 775 days we are finally about to see it. Though it is not what many had hoped for, least of all Conservative Party MPs. Tory backbenchers are in uproar over reports that the Prime Minister plans to raise national insurance to pay for increased funding for social care.
This would clearly break the Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto commitment not to raise taxes. That is the pledge every Tory election candidate made to the British people. Now many of them are worried about the consequences of Boris’s betrayal.
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