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Referendum has nothing to offer

07 Jun 2012

Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign

Let’s be beastly to foreigners

16 Mar 2023

The Illegal Migration Bill is the opening shot of the Tory general election campaign, writes Eddie Ford

Victory for pundits’ union

16 Mar 2023

The BBC’s brief ‘free speech’ war with Gary Lineker shows up its own institutional weakness - and the strange moral situation of football itself - argues Paul Demarty

Made for each other

09 Mar 2023

Kevin Bean looks beyond Tory faux outrage about Sir Keir appointing Sue Gray as chief-of-staff, and asks what it means for the prospects of the official left

Stupidity and score-settling

09 Mar 2023

What was Matt Hancock thinking about when he handed a vast trove of WhatsApp messages over to a notoriously mercenary journalist? Paul Demarty looks over the ‘lockdown files’

Sturgeon’s final straw

02 Mar 2023

Have we reached ‘peak SNP’? Is the dream of Scottish independence now fading? Eddie Ford reports on the leadership battle and continuing culture wars

Sunak’s Brexit deal

02 Mar 2023

English sausages and Stilton cheese have little to do with the Windsor Framework. Kevin Bean looks at the wider strategic context

Chosen by Labour right

16 Feb 2023

Tina Werkmann gives the inside story of how Jared O’Mara was selected, how he beat the odious Nick Clegg and how he quickly spiralled into a mental health crisis. Clearly he needs help, not a four-year prison sentence

Getting out the big stick

16 Feb 2023

As part of their war against the ‘economically inactive’, the Tories want to scapegoat and harass, writes Eddie Ford

Stoked by government ministers

16 Feb 2023

Kevin Bean reports on the Knowsley riot, its causes and the inadequacies of the economistic left’s responses

Picket lines and ballot box

09 Feb 2023

Mass strikes, soaring food and energy prices, Tory sleaze scandals - all speak of the return of the ‘British disease’. Eddie Ford says that is why sections of the mainstream media could well back Sir Keir in 2024, and why we need our own political alternative

Dispatches from the warzone

02 Feb 2023

The Tories are deliberately running down the NHS and the human cost is horrendous. But James Linney does not reckon Labour’s plans amount to anything much better

From Dixon to Carrick

02 Feb 2023

Following the latest scandal involving the Met, Eddie Ford agrees with SWP’s call for the abolition of the police. But then what?

Devolution non-recognition

02 Feb 2023

UK government uses the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill as an excuse to assert ministers’ right to micro-manage Holyrood legislation for Tory electoral advantage. Mike Macnair explores the issues

Look in the mirror

19 Jan 2023

They continue to denounce sexism in state institutions without confronting their own history. Paul Demarty calls for some self-criticism

Going spare

12 Jan 2023

With the British establishment suffering a collective conniption, Paul Demarty says we republicans owe a small debt to the Californian prince

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