Hartlepool fits the bill for the much clichéd image of the ‘Red Wall’ constituency: northern, coastal, deindustrialised and the tenth most deprived local authority area in England as of 2019. After the resignation of the Labour MP elected in 2019, May’s…

Regardless of whether it’s a cheap stunt or a threat to the lifeline many refugees depend on, the Government’s threat to jail alleged people smugglers for life involved in English Channel crossings have certainly not been taken lightly by campaigners,…

As a student at the University of Bristol, I was shocked at the violence that took place in the city centre last Sunday night. Bristol has garnered national and international press attention for protests and civil disobedience on its city’s…

Ensuring energy sustainability in the long term is one issue among many that has been utterly  obscured by the combination of COVID and Brexit. Time that could have gone into a debate over how Britain should be powered has instead…

The Labour Party never does itself any favours, does it? With the government in disarray, Labour had a real chance to put a credible plan forward as an alternative ahead of this May’s local elections. Instead, the party has imploded,…

There was always something slightly off about seeing images of Boris Johnson and the rest of the Cabinet clap for careers during the first wave of the pandemic. For me, it seemed superficial, as it could never make up for…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak released the fiscal budget for the next year last week, and whilst the funding is scarce for the country, the Tories still seem to be protecting their fellow members of the patriarchal elite. It almost seems predictable…

Growing up, the idea of corruption conjured images of soviet party officials and generals enjoying lavish luxuries with the protection of state-owned media and secret police. But with the contracts scandal currently exploding, it is time for the current generation…

The Labour Party leadership has had something of an embarrassing time in the last month. With opinion polls slowly showing better performance since Keir Starmer became leader, Labour’s statistical fortunes are now faltering again and the party’s recent patriotic turn…

Today’s impending budget represents a litmus test for Keir Starmer. Decades of neoliberal orthodoxies have evaporated over a year, with a Conservative government using unprecedented powers of the state to safeguard health and economic well-being. The normal boundaries of political…