Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Social mobility is no substitute for social change
Opportunity, as an ideology, can never replace equality as a lived experience, writes STEPHEN LOW
A cleaner outside 10 Downing Street
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
DIANE ABBOTT debunks claims made politicians drumming up support for an enhanced militarisation of the British economy
The Morning Star’s AGM tour comes at a critical moment for both the British left and the newspaper itself, as it battles political fragmentation and media industry upheaval. Editor BEN CHACKO issues a clarion call to readers to play their part in the coming period
The growing argument that welfare must be sacrificed for ‘security’ is built on nothing but myth, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Esmond Romilly horrified Britain’s Establishment by turning from privileged schoolboy to anti-fascist fighter, writes MAT COWARD
SOCIAL mobility in Britain has, in the words of the government’s own commission on the matter, been “stagnant” in recent years. The question the left should be asking about this isn’t so much “how is this to be tackled?” so much as “why do we need social mobility?”
Social mobility is all about saying we should have an equal chance in the rat race. Well we all know who rat races are for. Better that we look toward social equality and a better life for everyone.
Social mobility has its advocates everywhere.
Take sometime education secretary Justine Greening declaring “improving social mobility is a defining challenge for us as a nation.” Yet when it comes to tackling the most serious issues facing us talk is, at best, misplaced. At its worst it is a smokescreen designed to obscure a determination to preserve inequality and unfairness.
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