Opinion

Wes Streeting’s ‘Overdiagnosis’ Crusade Isn’t Going to Help Anyone

Micha Frazer-Carroll

Mental health diagnoses are far from perfect. But attacking ‘overdiagnosis’ as a way to push sick and disabled people back into work is far worse, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.

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Your Party Members Don’t Want MPs to Be the Stars. Corbyn and Sultana Should Take the Hint

Steven Methven

With Corbyn and Sultana jostling for pole position in Your Party, members have voted for a collective leadership that decentres MPs. They should both get with the programme, writes Steven Methven.

Few of Us Were Perfect As Teenagers, but Farage’s Antics Are Different

Ash Sarkar

How much does a politician's behaviour at school matter? It depends how extreme it was, and whether they're willing to take accountability now, argues Ash Sarkar.

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The Government Pays Landlords £17bn a Year. It’s Taking Back £2bn. So What?

Nick Bano

Rachel Reeves’ increased property income tax and mansion taxes have been described as a “swoop” on landlords and wealthy property-owners. In reality, it’s they who are raking in government handouts, writes Nick Bano.

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If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Lobby groups have targeted 54% of culture workers' organisations. Is it any wonder, asks Juliet Jacques, that even the most famous artists are being silenced on Palestine?

Zarah Sultana at Your Party's founding conference, 29 September 2025.

Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?

Steven Methven

Your Party members voted for collective leadership. But between the two co-founders, there was really only one winner, writes Steven Methven.

Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

After MPs had the whip suspended for rebelling on the two-child benefit cap last year, scrapping it is now government policy. And backbenchers are set to force more concessions, writes Ash Sarkar.

The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

Freezing income tax bands leaves the wealthiest unaffected, while Rachel Reeves’ deference to the bond markets is another gift to the rich, writes Steven Methven.

Flash-mob of ‘partygate’ anti-Boris Johnson protesters wearing floppy blond wigs and Boris Johnson masks and suits gathered outside Downing Street after the UK prime minister was put under investigation for holding a drinks party at No 10 on various occasions, breaking the Covid lockdown restrictions, 14 January 2022. Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Live News

No 10’s Toxic Covid Culture Didn’t Just Vanish With the Tories

Ash Sarkar

The conditions that enabled Tory failures in the pandemic are still present in Keir Starmer’s government, writes Ash Sarkar.

Shabana Mahmood arrives at Downing Street for a weekly cabinet meeting, 4 November 2025, London. Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire

Labour’s Denmark-Inspired Asylum Plan Is Landing With the Far Right

Steven Methven

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s asylum plan is designed to prevent right-leaning voters from deserting Labour but so far, it’s pleased Tommy Robinson, writes Steven Methven.

People walk outside BBC Broadcasting House after director general of BBC Tim Davie and chief executive of BBC News Deborah Turness resigned following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, 10 November 2025. REUTERS/Jack Taylor

The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong

Steven Methven

The corporation's cardinal sin was messing with the big dogs it usually serves, writes Steven Methven.

February 9, 2025, New Orleans LA; A protestor displays a flag with Sudan and Gaza printed on it during the halftime performances of Super Bowl LIX between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory credit Eric Canha/CSM/Sipa USA (Credit Image: © Eric Canha/Cal Sport Media/Sipa USA)

Sudan and Palestine Are Haunted by the Same Ghost

Kieran Andrieu

The mass slaughter in both Gaza and Sudan is inextricably linked to the bloody tapestry of Britain’s colonial history. When we speak up for Palestinian liberation, we must also speak up for Sudan, writes Kieran Andrieu.

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Democrats Whined About Trump. Zohran Mamdani Offered an Alternative

Luke Savage

While party grandees preached defeat and despair, New York City's mayor-elect pitched free buses, cheap groceries and frozen rent. Turns out the antidote to Trump is just socialism, writes Luke Savage.

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Zack Polanski Has Pledged to Legalise Drugs. So Should All Leftwing Leaders

Kojo Koram

The left in Britain has mostly kept shtum about drugs, even though their criminalisation is inextricably linked to several of its key issues. The Green leader is finally breaking the silence, writes Kojo Koram.

It’s Your Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To

Ash Sarkar

Fractious, back-biting, unstrategic: so far, Your Party has managed to recreate the Labour party in all but scale, writes Ash Sarkar. But that isn’t to say there aren’t signs of life.

Lindsay Whittle wins the Caerphilly Senedd by-election in a historic victory on 24 October 2025.

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the town’s boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger elsewhere, argues Gareth Leaman.

Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Last week, Hassan Herzallah was among thousands of Palestinians reunited with their loved ones in the hostage exchange that formed part of the ceasefire deal in Gaza that Israel has since broken. Others emerged from Israeli captivity only to discover their family members were dead. Herzallah recounts his family’s ordeal.

People speak to a protest in front of a banner that says 'Scotland demands rent controls'

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

In September, the Scottish government passed a law limiting how much landlords can raise rents. Labour’s renters’ rights bill is a joke by comparison, writes Gordon Maloney.

Wes Streeting’s ‘Overdiagnosis’ Crusade Isn’t Going to Help Anyone

Micha Frazer-Carroll

Few of Us Were Perfect As Teenagers, but Farage’s Antics Are Different

Ash Sarkar

The Government Pays Landlords £17bn a Year. It’s Taking Back £2bn. So What?

Nick Bano

If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?

Steven Methven

Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

No 10’s Toxic Covid Culture Didn’t Just Vanish With the Tories

Ash Sarkar

Labour’s Denmark-Inspired Asylum Plan Is Landing With the Far Right

Steven Methven

The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong

Steven Methven

Sudan and Palestine Are Haunted by the Same Ghost

Kieran Andrieu

Zack Polanski Has Pledged to Legalise Drugs. So Should All Leftwing Leaders

Kojo Koram

It’s Your Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To

Ash Sarkar

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

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Wes Streeting’s ‘Overdiagnosis’ Crusade Isn’t Going to Help Anyone

Micha Frazer-Carroll

Your Party Members Don’t Want MPs to Be the Stars. Corbyn and Sultana Should Take the Hint

Steven Methven

Few of Us Were Perfect As Teenagers, but Farage’s Antics Are Different

Ash Sarkar

The Government Pays Landlords £17bn a Year. It’s Taking Back £2bn. So What?

Nick Bano

If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?

Steven Methven

Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

No 10’s Toxic Covid Culture Didn’t Just Vanish With the Tories

Ash Sarkar

Labour’s Denmark-Inspired Asylum Plan Is Landing With the Far Right

Steven Methven

The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong

Steven Methven

Sudan and Palestine Are Haunted by the Same Ghost

Kieran Andrieu

Democrats Whined About Trump. Zohran Mamdani Offered an Alternative

Luke Savage

Zack Polanski Has Pledged to Legalise Drugs. So Should All Leftwing Leaders

Kojo Koram

It’s Your Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To

Ash Sarkar

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

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