The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
THE global pandemic has taken an enormous cost in terms of lives, health and livelihoods.
This government should have done everything it could to combat all of these, but it has failed on every count.
We are faced with the greatest pandemic to have hit the world for 100 years.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
The new plan sets out an uncompromising bid for global dominance, casting even allies as obstacles to be subdued, writes DIANE ABBOTT


