The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Mapping black distrust of the police
Labour’s leader has weighed in behind the thin blue line — but he needs to understand we live in a society with record levels of scepticism towards law enforcement, says NICK WRIGHT
Police carry out spot checks at Leicester railway station
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
KEIR STARMER’s reaction to the demand by Black Lives Matter campaigners — that controls on the funding of police forces be utilised to modify the way the police operate — fell squarely into the range of responses that senior law enforcement officials offer when the operations of the state’s coercive apparatus are challenged.
Faced with a popular demand that confronts the code of inviolability with which state institutions cloak themselves, the former Director of Public Prosecutions naturally thought such an outlandish idea was “nonsense.”
In fact, such controls on public expenditure are quite routine. Conservative and Labour governments routinely use funding as a way of compelling local authorities to operate in ways the State prefers.
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