On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
The Boris Johnson show
Boris Johnsn's fickle and opportunist ways were on full show during his tenure as London Mayor, remembers MURAD QURESHI
Broken Britain Boris: As mayor Johnson was heckled in Clapham Junction over the London riots
The UN has shamefully empowered the occupation of Gaza rather than ending it – we must redouble our efforts to build the movement required to establish a true peace, argues BEN JAMAL
Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
In part V of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY argues that to confront capitalism’s escalating crises, unions must reorient toward class politics and help build a united, explicitly socialist alternative capable of representing the working class and its material needs
AS BORIS JOHNSON, MP for Uxbridge becomes a shoo-in for the next Tory Party leader and as a result the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let us not forget what we are really getting — the next instalment of the Boris Johnson show.
While l was at City Hall for the whole of his two terms, my abiding memory of Boris Johnson as mayor of London was when the riots started in the summer of 2011. He did not want to come back from his holidays when London was burning.
It was the only time he was well out of kilter with the public mood in London and so much so that he got a very hostile reception when he did eventually get back to a public meeting. At that critical point the English riots of 2011 were very much a London affair before spreading throughout England. The London mayor was criticised by locals over the slow police response to high street looting and his sluggish return from holiday as he was heckled in Clapham Junction over the London riots.
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