Streeting will follow Labour’s well-trodden path
LESLIE HUCKFIELD explains how the roots of the shadow health secretary’s affection for the private health sector can be traced back to Patricia Hewitt and her New Labour heyday
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
HISTORY shows that the meaningful and lasting components of neoliberalism always come from the left.
Though political history will hardly rank Wes Streeting’s proposed dismemberment of the NHS alongside Francois Mitterand’s abandonment of his 1981 Union de la Gauche, Bob Hawke’s 1983 Prices and Incomes Accord with trade unions in Australia, Clinton’s 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act or Gerhard Schroeder’s 2003 Hartz IV reforms in Germany, for British politics Streeting’s ambitions go further than Tony Blair’s 1995 attack on Clause Four.
As much as currently possible, this piece seeks to provide a political Ordnance Survey map of how he seeks to overcome its contours.
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