While most voters don’t know what the ‘culture war’ even is, the Tories are making it the centrepiece of their governing strategy. Samuel Earle argues Johnson, like Thatcher, is playing the long game – and total control over the terms and conditions of political debate is the goal.
In 2018, Labour’s candidate in the Hartlepool by-election went on a state-funded trip to Saudi Arabia and came back a vocal supporter of the regime. While the party’s decision to run him in Hartlepool is certainly shocking, it’s also not even slightly surprising, argues David Wearing.
From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes Jake Bowers.
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer share a willingness to forgo principles in order to win votes. In the second piece of a new series on the Tories and how they hold on to power, Samuel Earle explains why this strategy is working for one but not the other.
The race report fundamentally misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class. This is no accident, writes Annie Olaloku-Teriba – in doing so it seeks to further an agenda as old as colonialism.
After the police violently shut down a vigil for Sarah Everard, many people have had their eyes opened to the horrors of state brutality for the first time. If the left is serious about building power, we shouldn't dismiss these people for being late to the party, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.
Inmates have endured unthinkable conditions during this pandemic, but even before coronavirus, being in prison was like lockdown on steroids. Sam, who has just finished a 30-month sentence, recounts his experience to Sophie K Rosa.
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