Starmer’s Address to the Nation
Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial Respond to Keir Starmer’s Address to the Nation on Covid-19. Plus, top scientists say Johnson’s new restrictions aren’t good enough, China commits to carbon neutrality by 2060 and RLB’s replacement gets Labour in trouble.
‘It Scares Me to Think Where We’ll End Up’: The Renters Facing Homelessness Now the Eviction Ban Has Lifted
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‘Family Values’ Without Class is a Dead End for Labour
Aaron Bastani
Our Financialised Care System is Built on a House of Cards – We Urgently Need to Rebuild It
Annie Quick and Alice Martin
Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]
Johnson’s Address to the Nation
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani react to Johnson’s address to the nation.
Marxism or Methodism? For Labour’s Centrist Vanguard, It Was Neither
Aaron Bastani
FinCEN Files: We Must Challenge HSBC and Its Grip on Our Media and Institutions
Nicholas Wilson
Why the Decline of High Street Retail Could Have Troubling Consequences for Our Freedom
Alan Bradshaw
Second Wave Incoming
Coronavirus cases are doubling every week. Hospital admissions are rising. And – if Britain doesn’t change course – more deaths are on the way. That was the message from the UK’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor in a live public broadcast this morning. Is it time to panic?? Plus, Labour’s online conference, the […]
Supermarket Workers Have Power – It’s Time They Got Organised
Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler
Six Months of Starmer
Keir Starmer pitched left during his leadership campaign with promises to maintain the radicalism of the Corbyn years. However, since taking over as leader he has set a rather different tone. How should progressives in Britain relate to the Labour Party under Starmer’s leadership? And what leverage do we have when Starmer allies are doing […]
Lockdown Reloaded
10 million people in the UK now live under local restrictions, and a nationwide lockdown looks to be incoming. Will the government come to regret bullying us into our offices, and giving us all discounts in pubs? Plus: why no-one understands government testing figures (including Matt Hancock); Priti Patel’s War on Cocaine; Joe Biden’s Beef […]
A Progressive Elitism?
James Butler is joined by Eliane Glaser to navigate through elitism, culture, aesthetic politics and the meaning of democracy.
