Budget missed opportunity

Mansion tax a poor substitute for wider reform of council tax says Duncan Bowie This is not a redistributive budget. The freezing of income tax...

Looks like a Labour budget

Ending the two child benefit cap was a plus says Victor Anderson Labour MPs liked it because the two-child benefit cap is to be lifted...

Budget fails to address real wealth inequalities

Prem Sikka says the second Labour budget has more negatives than positives and looks like managing decline rather than renewal The most positive thing about...

Looks like a Labour budget

Ending the two child benefit cap was a plus says Victor Anderson Labour MPs liked it because the two-child benefit cap is to be lifted...

Budget fails to address real wealth inequalities

Prem Sikka says the second Labour budget has more negatives than positives and looks like managing decline rather than renewal The most positive thing about...

Editorial

Issue 337 Editorial

Red lights flashing for Labour Labour’s loss of Caerphilly in the byelection for the Welsh Senedd should be a deafening wake-up call. Following a summer of bad headlines...

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...

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...

Uxbridge not a bellwether

In the wake of the Uxbridge by-election Bryn Jones says Labour’s wobbling on green policies will not win it any votes

Driscoll affair echoes Livingstone

Will Jamie Driscoll’s departure be a repeat of the Livingstone London mayor fiasco? asks Trevor Fisher

Labour’s National Policy Forum must back proportional representation

The vast majority of CLPs support it, as do two-thirds of affiliated trade unions. So, will the NPF accept the case for PR? Maximilian Czekalski explains why it should

No time to stay silent

Margaret Owen asks why Starmer is ignoring the obvious ways to win the women’s vote

Parliamentary revolutionaries

Duncan Bowie on a new study of the English Civil War The Fiery Spirits by John Rees published by Verso   This is a very different...

Punk and Protest

Peter Hain on the ANL A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown published by Bookmarks Sunday, April 30th, 1978, standing on the stage...

True Democracy?

Duncan Bowie on the failure of the English republic The Fall by Henry Reece published by Yale University Press This study covers the twenty months between...

We can’t go on like this

John McDonnell MP says Labour must stop playing into the hands of Reform Somehow, party members going to Labour Party Conference have to try and...