First-past-the-post is an unfair electoral system that favours the Tories. If the Labour left is serious about achieving transformative change, it needs to get behind proportional representation, argues James McAsh.
For all his posturing, Keir Starmer’s efforts to recast Labour as the party of business are entirely cosmetic, argues Aaron Bastani. If he really wanted to address the challenges businesses face, he’d be talking about rent caps.
One of the reasons we should care about the BBC, we are told, is because the World Service allows Britain to punch above its weight on the world stage. Aaron Bastani asks: should the licence fee really be funding our country's obsessive pursuit of the illusion of global influence?
The answer to Labour’s problems in the polls isn’t to double down on attacking the left within the party, or admonishing the Greens or even the Lib Dems. It’s to set out an electoral offer that will appeal to ‘generation left’ in 2024 - and to do it now, argues Aaron Bastani.
In the 2019 general election, Labour won just over 18% of the vote in Scotland - its lowest vote-share since its formation as a party. Ahead of its upcoming leadership election, Rory Maclean takes a look at what Scottish Labour must do to make sure it survives.
Some in the scientific community believe a future pathogen - one more deadly than Covid-19 - is the greatest immediate threat to the survival of our species. The good news is that this threat is avoidable - but only through global cooperation, argues Aaron Bastani.
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