Just when you thought Keir Starmer’s week couldn’t get worse after Peter Mandelson was arrested for allegedly being a flight risk, we have the result from Gorton and Denton.
The Greens achieved a stunning victory, but their real fight has just begun, openDemocracy reporter Ethan Shone writes in this week’s edition, predicting that the establishment will now be out for blood. Meanwhile, Danny Sriskandarajah from the New Economics Foundation argues that the 25‑point swing away from Labour shows voters want bold, people‑centred solutions rather than the privatisation, liberalisation and financialisation that lies at the heart of our broken economic system.
For a vivid illustration of what a broken system looks like, read openDemocracy tech reporter (and newest team member) Jade-Ruyu Yan on the government’s decision to appoint the Ex-Amazon UK boss to the UK’s competition watchdog. As one expert told Jade-Ruyu, “Why would [a former Amazon executive] want to join the Competition and Markets Authority? … Why? Just keep asking why.”
