The Trades Union Congress Conference in Brighton in October was my first ever political conference, and not a bad start for a socialist. The conference was energetic, ironically, fueled by the cost-of-living crisis and a realization that unions were once…
The new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, promised to be a tax-cutting Prime Minister. She has kept her promise. The “mini-budget” announced by the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, will introduce some of the biggest tax cuts in a generation. Yet, the caveat…
Britain’s economy is not world beating, but is taking a beating. After 12 long years of austerity, the worst economic performance of any advanced country during the pandemic, Brexit, and the government’s failures during the cost of living crisis, the economy…
When Britain awoke on 11 December 2019, it was greeted by a 78-seat Conservative majority and the worst result for Labour since 1935. The once-moderate party of Clement Attlee with the welfare state and NATO, Harold Wilson with comprehensive education…
Arise the new Leader of the Opposition: The Right Honourable James Gordon Brown. Reminiscent of when William Hague stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions in 2006, thus marking a return to the front-bench after his period as…
The events of 5th-7th July 2022 were unprecedented, extraordinary, and frankly, farcical. The 36-hour coup, waged predominantly by those who owe their political livelihoods to Boris Johnson, showed the Conservative Party mercilessly plot and conspire against – and ultimately betray…
One major facet of the 2019 general election was how, after many years of making neoliberal economics its raison d’etre, the Conservative Party finally seemed to embrace a post-Thatcherite vision. It campaigned on increased spending and more government intervention in…
It has now been several weeks since the local elections. All the results have long come in, but it has only been recently that councils around the country are forming. Nationally, the Conservatives lost over 500 councillors, many of them…
The words ‘Downing Street party’ along with the names Boris Johnson and Sue Gray have been on everyone’s lips these past few weeks and have distracted the nation from some extremely important news stories. Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are…