Can Starmer’s Labour meet the post-pandemic challenge?
As the UK emerges from a year of Covid-induced lockdowns and restrictions, Labour’s 'softly, softly' style of opposition will be put to the test.
Time to take gloves off
Ten years of Tory austerity have wrecked the social foundations of the UK and amplified the devastation of Covid-19.
Tory Britain not working
Keir Starmer needs to wind back restrictions on members and refocus on building a narrative around a new democracy and a new economy.
Deepening divisions and levelling down
As widely predicted, Covid-19 is now unfolding a second deadly wave. Once again Johnson’s government has been caught asleep at the wheel
Building the Labour alternative
In some ways the Covid-19 pandemic has masked the realities of the challenge facing the left; in other ways, it has exposed it.
Workers must not be made to pay for Covid crisis
Beware the second wave: not just the threat to lives from a further spike in Covid-19, but to livelihoods from impending recession, mass unemployment and an increasingly likely ‘no deal’ Brexit.
Covid-19 charge sheet against Tories
Covid-19 is a pandemic unprecedented in over 100 years. Besides the devastating human cost in lives, the cost in livelihoods has also been incalculable.
Johnson learning from Trump playbook
Already Johnson’s Tories are reneging on commitments made in the EU Withdrawal Agreement to adhere to worker and consumer rights and environmental standards.
Long haul for Labour
Labour suffered a heavy defeat on 12th December. Identifying the reasons for failure to unseat a Tory government presiding over nine years of austerity will rightly occupy some time.
Ditching the Tories
Parliament has put Boris Johnson in a ditch but he is far from dead.
Love Socialism, Hate Brexit
Halloween approaches. The options: a no deal crash out of the EU or some tinsel on May’s deal around the Ireland backstop.