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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer made a crucial error in his speechThe Labour leader wants to be the heroic knight to trickster Boris Johnson. But people love tricksters
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer’s speech – the best thing since stale breadIt’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us today. It’s you
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs this the beginning of the end for Labour?The pandemic should have been a chance to decry inequality and demand change. Instead, Labour tried to win a...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationPro-Tory campaigns spent over £700,000 without declaring a single donationExclusive: The likes of Capitalist Worker and Campaign Against Corbynism spent heavily ahead of the 2019 election...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer was right to stress his patriotism. Now Labour must turn the patriotic heat on the RightThe party must challenge the idea that those who govern us are patriots or serve the national interest
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Labour must return to its radical rootsLabour is becalmed ahead of Scotland’s election. For the party to surge, it needs to ride the current of...
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Published in: Home: OpinionKeir Starmer’s leadership isn’t new at allBy saying nothing of any interest, the UK's new Labour leader reassures the powerful that he is suitably dull.
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Published in: Home: OpinionLabour lost because of a fudge in which we all participatedTwo years on from the crucial moment for Labour’s Brexit policy - here’s what we got wrong
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI was at the heart of Corbynism. Here's why we lostStructural factors, not individual failings, defeated us
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPortugal's power-sharing success story has vital lessons for LabourPortugal shows that both pluralism and proportional representation don’t have to hold socialists back – indeed quite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBoris who? Didn’t he use to be famous?Johnson’s coup has ignited the possibility of a united opposition from below. Now we need to keep our eyes on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ten Brexit questions no-one’s giving a straight answer toLabour now backs a second referendum. But the Tories are seriously freewheeling towards No Deal (today’s vote in...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia#Tech4Worse: The problem with digital labour initiatives for the Middle EastContrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don’t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy aren't Egyptians revolting against the price hikes?Some are frustrated at the Egyptian public’s ‘non-reaction’ to the waves of successive price hikes and deterioration...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBreaking the impasse: how to avoid a Labour splitA Labour split would be disastrous. But the party can avoid this if it learns from the republicanism of Machiavelli.
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Published in: ourNHSLipstick on the TTIP pigCorbyn seems less inclined to buy the 'compromises' that TTIP negotiators are selling - which campaigners have...
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Published in: ourNHSMichael Sheen - the NHS "is about as powerful a symbol of goodness as we have"In a passionate St David's Day speech in defence of the NHS, actor Michael Sheen tells politicians "Stand up for...
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Published in: ourNHSLabour NHS plan outrages privatisersLabour's new plans to reduce private profiteering in the NHS have triggered a vicious counter-attack in the Tory...
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Published in: ourNHSShould politicians summer reading lists include 'unthinkable' ideas for the NHS?Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians'...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKYes, Labour should listen to its base
UK Labour's right wing calls on the party to ignore populism when that means blaming bankers or rejecting austerity...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRevealed: The tax avoider’s secret weapon
