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Untimely Atlanticism

US AI data centres drain power and offer little for UK jobs while in Europe opportunities call says Dave Levy One of the few substantial...

Labour losing moral compass  

Don Flynn says Home Secretary Mahmood’s  “moral mission” is intent on overturning the rights of migrants     Shabana Mahmood has set out a claim to a “moral mission” to mend divisions over...

Labour’s Budget Choice

Taxing the rich, closing loopholes and ending privatisation can reduce child poverty, inequality and boost investment argues Prem Sikka Sustained economic growth has been the...

Taxing the rich

Ignacia Punto asks to tax or not to tax the rich? Will Labour meet the challenge in the Autumn Budget It has now been over...

The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump

As Trump’s authoritarian rule rumbles across the US and internationally Paul Garver examines its impact and the resistance Nearly a full year since Trump’s re-election,...

Political lessons from France

Patrick Costello sees Macron on the back foot with the far right threatening and the left alliance fracturing Possibly the biggest irony of Emmanuel Macron’s...

Mainstream – Labour needs its movement back

Luke Hurst and Neal Lawson explain how Mainstream aims to help Labour open up and rediscover its values and thirst for radical change When a party...

England for the English?

John Denham examines the flag phenomenon, why Labour is getting its response to England dangerously wrong and why it should develop a programme of...

Hope and faith — but no vision

Amsterdam’s PES Congress showed social democrats know what they’re against. They still struggle to say what they’re for. From 16–18 October, Europe’s social democrats gathered...

Where is housing for social rent?

Duncan Bowie on the Government’s failure on affordable housing Not only is the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes over the five year parliamentary...

Government versus Students, Migrants, and Education

There are deep roots to the crisis in higher education.  Labour's policies on multiple exam retakes for troubled students and restrictions on the rights...

Local socialism – making it happen

Tom Miller outlines a range of measures to improve local services and wellbeing while boosting local Labour Central planks of the Labour government’s ambitions depend...